Richard Bentley

(1662-1742)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742 NRA: Bentley, Richard (1662-1742) Scholar and Critic DNB: Bentley, Richard (1662-1742), philologist and classical scholar LBT ID: RiBentl1742 VIAF ID: 27862472 LOC ID: n50007421	B/BAP: 1662-01-27 DIED: 1742-07-14
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Classical scholar and master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1700-42); he was satirized by Swift and Pope.
REFERENCES TO Richard Bentley: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. VIII. 1771-1776 Found 1: ¶ n3 Ch. XII. 1779-1786 Found 2: ¶ 31 ¶ n1 Ch. XXI. 1791-1796 Found 1: ¶ 30 Ch. XXVIII. 1800-1807 Found 2: ¶ 24 ¶ 25 Ch XI. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ n2 Ch XIII. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 15 Ch XXV. Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 23 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. II” in New Monthly Magazine 79 (April 1847) 515-22 Found 1: ¶ 6 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. III” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (May 1847) 38-48 Found 1: ¶ 19 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter XIV Found 1: ¶ 9