|Date of Birth:||15 February 1748|
Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist and atheist who is widely regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. He never married and did not have children. Bentham was excessively shy and was postmortemly suspected to have suffered from Asperger's syndrome. He had a very strict daily routine: Everyday he stood up at 6am, walked for two hours and then worked until 4pm.
Romantic life[edit | edit source]
Bentham was likely incelish throughout his life because there exist anecdotes of him awkwardly approaching women as a adolescent, suggesting his was not asexual. At the old age of 80, he wrote to one of the women he courted during his youth, reminding her that she had "presented him, in ceremony, with the flower in the green lane".