XVII 
George Bent ham, F.R.S. 
session of the house in Queen Square Place 1 . Here, after 
his marriage in 1833 to a daughter of the Rt. Hon. Sir 
Harford Brydges, Bart., formerly H. M. Envoy at the 
Court of the Shah of Persia, he resided until 1843. He had, 
however, been rendered independent through his fathers 
death two years previously. 
The amount and variety of mental work achieved by 
Bentham, during the years of bondage to his uncle, is very 
remarkable in many ways. Over and above his duties as his 
uncle’s secretary, he had to arrange, often rewrite, and edit, 
his father’s voluminous papers on the administration of the 
dockyards and other naval matters, and to study law. His 
legal studies were finally abandoned for logic and juris- 
prudence, but not till after he had published three notable 
papers ; one on codification, on which subject he entirely dis- 
agreed with his uncle, but the paper attracted the attention of 
Brougham, Hume, and O’Connel. Another paper was on the 
laws affecting larceny, apropos of Sir Robert Peel’s bill for the 
consolidation of the Criminal Law. Of this Peel thought so 
highly that he complimented its author, and informed him 
that it should be submitted to Sir John Richardson, to whom 
the bill was referred ; a copy of it being shown by his uncle 
to Lord Brougham, the latter wrote a letter of eighteen pages 
of remarks upon it. The third was a pamphlet on the Law 
of Real Property. But his most considerable work of this 
period received scant attention from those most interested 
in its subject, and passed from its birth directly into an 
oblivion from which it was rescued only in later years, 
yet without word or sign from its author. This was his 
4 Outlines of a new system of Logic, with a critical ex- 
amination of Dr. Whately’s Elements of Logic,’ published 
in 1827. In it the Quantification of the Predicate 2 was 
1 It overlooked St. James’s Park and the parade ground of Wellington Barracks, 
and its site is now approximately occupied by the ‘ Bentham wing ’ of the Queen 
Anne’s Mansions. It had been in possession of the family for upwards of a century, 
having been purchased by Bentham’s paternal grandfather. 
2 The following history of this episode in Bentham’s career is, I think, too 
interesting and too important to be omitted in his obituary. It is taken from the 
b 2 
