Richard Bentley, English scholar and theologian (died 1742)

Richard Bentley

English classical scholar, critic, and theologian (1662–1742)

Richard Bentley FRS 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…