Jeremy Bentham is on the move!
As we approach Jeremy Bentham's birthday on 15 February, the renowned legal thinker and reformer's Auto-icon is getting an exciting present - a new home!. Bentham and UCL: a perfect pair In February 2020, Jeremy Bentham's Auto-icon is moving to a prominent new home at the heart of UCL's Bloomsbury campus. Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832) was internationally celebrated as a lawyer, philosopher, radical and reformer - best known for developing the doctrine of utilitarianism, and famously associated with promoting 'the greatest happiness of the greatest number'. Bentham was a true disruptive thinker; he critiqued the usefulness of many of the institutions, practices and beliefs of his day. A visionary far ahead of his time, he advocated universal suffrage and the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Bentham strongly believed that education should be made more widely available, and not only to those who were wealthy and members of the established church. As one of the first English Universities to open its doors to all, regardless of race, creed or political belief, UCL went a long way to fulfilling Bentham's vision of what a university should be.
