William Bentley [SEP] cause of death
on December 29, 1819 of a heart attack. The noted orator Edward Everett delivered his eulogy. He is buried in Harmony Grove Cemetery.
Works on Bentley.
- Brown, Richard D. "Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865" (1991) excerpt and text search pp 197–217
- Ruffin, J. Rixey. 2007. "A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic". Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Further reading.
master. He took the lead of the fellows in the efforts made to cause William Fleetwood, Moore's successor, to move against Bentley, and in 1716 came to an open rupture with the master, because he refused to accede to his claim to the vice-mastership.
In 1720 there was another public quarrel between them, in which Colbatch had the best of it, and forced Bentley to agree to appointing him to the college living of Orwell, Cambridgeshire, which he held till his death. In 1720 also