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Richard Bentley

English classical scholar, critic and theologian and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1662–1742)

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Lived 1662–1742, aged 80

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Richard Bentley was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellenism. In 1892, A. E. Housman called Bentley "the greatest scholar that England or perhaps that Europe ever bred".

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