death_date death_place birth_place nationality birth_date image article_title name occupation
14 july 1742 -lrb- aged 80 -rrb- cambridge oulton , leeds , west yorkshire english 27 january 1662 richard bentley 3.jpg richard bentley
 richard bentley classical scholar , critic , theologian
richard bentley

richard bentley -lrb- ; 27 january 1662 -- 14 july 1742 -rrb- was an english classical scholar , critic , and theologian .
he was master of trinity college , cambridge .
bentley was the first englishman to be ranked with the great heroes of classical learning and was known for his literary and textual criticism .
called the `` founder of historical philology '' , bentley is credited with the creation of the english school of hellenism .
