Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bent, James" to "Bibirine" by Various

1820. He was educated at Sherborne school, and Trinity College, Oxford.

Graduating B.A. in 1842, he took his B.C.L., was elected Vinerian scholar and fellow, and having read in chambers with Roundell Palmer (afterwards Lord Selborne), was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in