Betham, Edward B.D
Betham, Edward B.D
an English divine of the 18th century, was educated at Eton School and at King’s College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1731. He afterwards became rector of Greenford, in Middlesex, and preacher at Whitehall. His benefactions were very large as compared with his fortune. He gave 20, 000 to the Botanical Garden at Cambridge, endowed a charity-school in his own parish in 1780, and gave other gifts of importance. He died in 1783.