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Jeremiah Bentham (1712–1792), father of Jeremy Bentham

Son of Jeremiah Betham (1685–1741) and his wife, Rebecca née Tabor (fl. 1710–1752); in 1745 he married Alicia Whitehorne, née Grove (d. 1759); they had six children, of whom only two, Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) and Samuel Bentham (1757–1831), survived. After Alicia's death, in 1766 he married Mrs Sarah Abbot, née Farr. He studied law and practised as an attorney from at least 1730, but made more money from property dealing than from law.