The Life of Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham, K. S. G

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Excerpt from The Life of Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham, K. S. G: Formerly Inspector-General of Naval Works Lately a Commissioner of His Majesty's Navy With the Distinct Duty of Civil Architect and Engineer of the Navy The following Memoirs will give some account of a life of singular activity, attended by great successes, yet not without vexations and disappointments. The latter involved some personal imputations, from which it was necessary to vindicate the memory of Sir Samuel Bentham, while the results of his incessant labours have tended to diminish the burdens, or to add to the resources of the country. To him are to be traced some of the most important changes in Naval Administration, and to him we arc indebted for many inventions which have effected an incalculable saving in public expenditure, as well as for Dockyard and other reforms which closed the sources of many long-continued and most pernicious abuses. Official opposition, which sought to uphold all vested interests, prevented him from carrying out many things which he had at heart, while, even in what he was enabled to accomplish, he had to struggle with the obstacles furnished by a passive resistance, and sometimes with personal animosity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.