Jeremy Bentham PART TWO

JEREMY BENTHAM - PART TWO 

This episode Em heads right into the enduring spectacle of Jeremy Bentham’s death wish. In lieu of flowers or funeral, the gentleman kindly requested that his friends attend an extra special, extravisceral “celebration of life”, provided custom VIP/BFF merch and RSVP’d his corpse for weekends at Bernie’s in perpetuity. Though he meticulously planned his immortalization, this undertaking was purely theoretical and posthumous, and so his already grotesque plans wandered off-script - from botched desiccation to novelty prop to football games and kidnappings…we are left to wonder if Bentham would consider his auto-icon: iconic or ironic? whonhwonn

Body world controversy 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-43902524

Mourning ring recipients :

1) Dr Neil Arnott (1788–1874), Scottish physician and inventor. (Inventor of the Arnott waterbed, and a smokeless fire grate)

2) Sarah Austin (1793–1867), editor, linguist, and translator. Her husband, John, was the first professor of jurisprudence at the University of London (later UCL)

3) Henry Bickersteth (1783–1851), first Baron Langdale, law reformer and Master of the Rolls 1836-51

4) Felix Bodin (1795–1837), French historian and politician

5) John Bowring (1792–1872), editor, literary translator, and colonial administrator.

6) Samuel Cartwright (1789–1864), Dentist in Ordinary to George IV, first president of the Odontological Society. (At some point Cartwright had offered Bentham free dental care)

7) Edwin Chadwick (1800–90), English social reformer, who led the reform of the Poor Law, and of public sanitation. Disciple of Bentham. His papers are in Special Collections

8) Mary Louise de Chesnel (1797–1865), Bentham's eldest niece, daughter of Maria-Sophia Bentham and Samuel Bentham (JB's younger brother).

9) Richard Doane (1805–48), Bentham's amanuensis

10) Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilber du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), aristocrat and military commander

11) Albany Fonblanque (1793–1872), journalist

12) James Harfield (d. 1851), Bentham's secretary

13) John Stuart Mill (1806–73), philosopher and civil servant

14) General William Miller (1795–1861), soldier and diplomat. Fought in the Napoleonic Wars, and later known as Guillermo Miller in Latin America for his service in the Peruvian Legion.

15) Joseph Parkes (1796–1865), solicitor and legal reformer

16) Francis Place (1771–1851), prominent Philosophical Radical and social reformer

17) Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832), economist, recently sold at auction by Christie's.

18) Thomas Southwood Smith (1788–1861), physician and sanitary reformer. Disciple of Bentham, and oversaw the creation of Bentham's auto-icon.

19) William Stockwell, servant boy to Bentham, in the possession of a descendent

20) William Tait, publisher and bookseller (1793–1864). Published the eleven-volume 1838-43 edition of Bentham's works superintended by John Bowring.

21) Thomas Perronet Thompson (1783–1869), politician , Governor of Sierra Leone 1808-10

22) John Tyrrell, barrister

23) José Cecilio del Valle (1780–1834), Guatemalan philosopher and politician

24) Jean-Sylvain de Weyer (1802–74), Belgian politician and de-facto Belgian ambassador to the United Kingdom

25) Mary Watson (presumably another of Bentham's servants)

26) George Wheatley, journalist and author of A Visit (1831)

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