The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to set up a national scheme for the provision of poor relief.
Ian R. Christie (1919–98), historian, was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, before being appointed successively as Assistant Lecturer 1948–51, Lecturer 1951–60, Reader 1960–6, Professor 1966–79, and finally Astor Professor of British History 1979–84, in the Department of History, University College London (UCL).