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Jeremy Bentham

The philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham (1748-


1832) was born at Houndsditch, London, on 15th
February 1748. He proved to be something of a child
prodigy: while still a toddler he was discovered sitting
at his father’s desk reading a multi-volume history of
England, and he began to study Latin at the age of
three. At twelve, he was sent to Queen’s College
Oxford, his father, a prosperous attorney, having
decided that Jeremy would follow him into the law, and
feeling quite sure that his brilliant son would one day be
Lord Chancellor of England.
Bentham, however, soon became disillusioned with the
law, especially after hearing the lectures of the leading
Instead of practising the law, he decided to write about
it, and he spent his life criticising the existing law and
suggesting ways for its improvement. His father’s death
in 1792 left him financially independent, and for nearly
forty years he lived quietly in Westminster, producing
between ten and twenty sheets of manuscript a day,
even when he was in his eighties.

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