Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley was born on January 27, 1662. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley (; 27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, Anglican cleric, 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". Bentley's Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, published in 1699, proved that the letters in question, supposedly written in the 6th century BCE by the Sicilian tyrant Phalaris, were actually a forgery produced by a Greek sophist…