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| | Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | The English Utilitarian and leader of the Philosophical Radicals, Jeremy Bentham, was born in Houndsditch, in London. |
 | | Bentham early attracted the friendship of Lord Shelbourne, traveled on the continent including Russia (1785-1788), met James Mill in 1808 and founded the politically and philosophically radical sect of the Benthamites. |
 | | He was a founder of University College, London, where his skeleton, dressed up in his clothes, is preserved. |
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