biography
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Bentham, Sir Samuel
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| lived:
| (1757–1831)
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| biography:
| Inventor and naval architect, born in London, UK, the brother of Jeremy Bentham and father of George Bentham. For nearly 20 years he devoted his energies to building up Britain's naval strength during the critical period of the Napoleonic Wars. His campaign against corruption and maladministration in the Admiralty dockyards aroused such bitterness that in 1812 he was forced to resign, though not before many of his reforms had been put into effect. |
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