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For another semester we devote a space to Jeremy Benthan (1748-1832), utilitarian theorist and classical criminologist--the Auto-Icon, at University College London. A recent visitor to this page had this to say:
"Thank you for highlighting Jeremy Bentham, the founder of UCL, my alma mater (LLM, 1989). Just a bit of confusion here though. Mr Bentham is not "in" his Auto-Icon, he IS the Auto-Icon. At death, following his wishes, his body was donated to the UCL Med School but the skelton was re-covered with his skin and mounted as you see in the gif. [However], the head in the gif and on display is a wax dummy. His actual head was mummified and stood on the Auto-Icon until [1989-90, when]...hooligan students from UCL's historical cross-London rival, King College (the Strand), now KCL, stole the head and played football with it! The head is now safe in a vault."I've been to dinner with the Auto-Icon. He attends the annual dinner of the Law Society at UCL..."
--Edited slightly and quoted with permission from Dave Null, June 1, 1997.
The date of the hooliganism was confirmed by the alumni office of UCL in a June 3, 1997 e-mail to Dave Null that was forwarded to Pat Jackson.
In another email dated July 16, 2003,David Null wrote again with further information about University College related to J. Bentham:
Dear Professor Jackson:
...I thought you might also be interested in a traditional University College London song. The last couple verses refer to the auto-icon.
dave null
Thank you, Dave!
JEREMY BENTHAM
(AIR: John Brown's Body aka "Battle Hymn of the Republic")
In A.D. eighteen twenty-six, a hundred years ago,
Our London was a wilderness, as probably you know,
And where the Gardener's mansion stands the weeds were wont to grow
A hundred years ago.
Weeds were growing where the Coll. is,
Weeds were growing where the Coll. is,
Weeds were growing where the Coll. is,
A hundred years ago.
The Jeremiah Bentham (call him Jeremy for short)
Deliberated long and then decided that he ought
to found a little College where good learning might be taught,
A hundred years ago.
Thought he'd found a home of learning,
A hundred years ago.
Then in the weedy wilderness a noble structure grew,
The Architect, Bill Wilkins, and the artist Flaxman too
Combined to make the College what it is to me and you,
A hundred years ago.
Jeremiah built the College, A Hundred years ago.
Then, lying on his deathbed, Jeremiah made a will:
Said he "Preserve my body with the utmost of your skill,
And place me in the library that all may see me still,
A hundred years from now."
Though his life is long departed,
His body's with us still.
They set him in a cupboard in the Science Libraree:
They dressed him in the clothes he wore that future folk might see
Just what the beau ideal of an Englishman should be,
A hundred years from now.
Just to show us what we should be,
A hundred years from now.
