Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 13th May 2024

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: University of Gloucestershire, Park Campus, Cheltenham GL50 2RH and online on Zoom

Description: Benthamite Utilitarianism is credited with contributing to the shape of British governmental bureaucracy and parliamentary representation after 1830. Study has adhered to Jeremy Bentham, the principal ideologist, who left a mountain of paper now almost fully published. However his brother, Samuel, Inspector General of Naval Works 1796-1808, Charles Abbot Speaker of the House of Commons 1803-17, and Mary Sophia Bentham, Samuel's wife, had major parts to play in family support, especially during the persecution of Samuel for his ideas while IGNW. Ironically, however, those ideas were sought for their economy value after 1815 - which permits this talk to argue that Benthamite Utilitarianism influenced government thirty years earlier than has hitherto been assumed. Roger Morris was a teacher until he was 30, a curator and Custodian of Manuscripts at the National Maritime Museum for 17 years, then senior lecturer in naval and maritime history at Exeter University for 21 years. While holding these positions, he taught for periods at the Greenwich Maritime Institute and in the archaeology department at Bristol and was General Editor for the Navy Records Society 2000-12. Various books and articles have appeared over the years.

How to book: Contact details – Janet Graham at histassocglos@gmail.com or Robert Sutton on 01242 574889

Price: Members and students free entry to all talks, visitors £3 entrance fee

Tel: 01242 574889

Email: histassocglos@gmail.com

Website: https://www.haglos.co.uk

Lecturer: Roger Morris, Private Scholar

Comments: To watch via Zoom please register - https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/historical-association-gloucestershire-branch/t-ojakqeg

Region: West Midlands

Branch: Gloucestershire