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Bentley, William Holman
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1855-1905
Baptist Missionary Society
Democratic Republic of Congo
William Holman Bentley was a Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) missionary in the Congo. Bentley was born at Sudbury, Suffolk, England, where his father was a Baptist minister. He worked as a bank clerk before being accepted by the BMS for its new Congo mission. He sailed for the Congo (Zaire) in April 1879 in the company of Thomas and Minnie Comber, H. E. Crudgington, and J. S. Hartland. In January 1881, Bentley and Crudgington became the first Europeans to establish a route inland from the mouth of the Congo to Stanley Pool, where modern Kinshasa is situated. In 1884, Bentley returned to England on a furlough. He took with him a Congolese assistant, Nlemvo, who worked with him on the compilation of the Dictionary and Grammar of the Kongo Language (1887), a work still used today. During this furlough he married Hendrina Margo Kloekers. Bentley returned to the Congo in 1886 to assume
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William Bentley Papers
William Bentley was born in Boston on June 22, 1759, the son of Joshua and Elizabeth Bentley. Very little is known Bentley's early life and childhood. At fourteen years of age Bentley went to Cambridge and entered Harvard College where he graduated with distinction as a member of the class of 1777. After graduation he spent a few years as a schoolmaster serving at the Boston Latin School. Later, he became preceptor of the North Grammar School, also in Boston. From the North School Bentley returned to Cambridge and Harvard, this time as a Latin and Greek tutor where he remained until 1783, when he received a call to the ministry. This call came from the East Church (Second Congregational Church) in Salem, Massachusetts. The East Society tendered Bentley the offer of a joint-pastorate with the Reverend James Diman. Upon meeting the requirements to the apparent satisfaction of all parties, Bentley was ordained on September 24, 1783.
From the outset, however, the joint-pastorate did not work out. Diman seemed to resent his junior colleague and neglected h
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William E. Bentley
American academic
For other people named Bill Bentley, see Bill Bentley (disambiguation).
William E. Bentley is the Robert E. Fischell Distinguished Professor of Engineering, founding Director of the Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices, and currently the Director of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. He was previously the Chair of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering,[2] where he assisted in establishing the department and provided leadership that led to its nationally ranked status.[3]
Dr. Bentley is also appointed in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering[4] at the University of Maryland, College Park and the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research.[5] He has served on advisory committees and panels for the NIH, NSF, DOD, DOE, USDA, and several state agencies. He has mentored over 25 Ph.D.s, some of whom are academics at: Cornell University (x2), University of Colorado, Clemson University,
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