{"id":4267,"date":"2025-02-18T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=4267"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:07:00","slug":"swavesey-and-district-history-society-5","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/event\/swavesey-and-district-history-society-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Swavesey and District History Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>17 June.\u00a0 Richard Bentley and Over Rectory.\u00a0 Richard Hewlings.\u00a0 <\/strong>Richard Bentley (1662 \u2013 1742), was a brilliant classical scholar and theologian and became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1700.\u00a0 His contemptuous treatment of many eminent colleagues led to extensive controversy and litigation.\u00a0 A Fellow of the Royal Society, Bentley was interested in natural theology and the new physical sciences, subjects on which he corresponded with Isaac Newton \u2013 another difficult person.\u00a0 History Society\u2019s main interest in him is that he built Over Rectory.<\/p>\n<p>At least half of our members live in Over, including our Secretary.\u00a0 The History Society meets at 7.30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of the month in The Carol Shaw Room at Swavesey Village College \u2013 through the main entrance then 20 metres along the corridor to the right.\u00a0 No need to book so you are welcome to just walk in.\u00a0 If you want further information, contact our Secretary, Carolyn on carolyn.redmayne@ntlworld.com or on 01954 230037.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 June.\u00a0 Richard Bentley and Over Rectory.\u00a0 Richard Hewlings.\u00a0 Richard Bentley (1662 \u2013 1742), was a brilliant classical scholar and theologian and became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1700.\u00a0 His contemptuous treatment of many eminent colleagues led to extensive controversy and litigation.\u00a0 A Fellow of the Royal Society, Bentley was interested in natural theology and the new physical sciences, subjects on which he corresponded with Isaac Newton \u2013 another difficult person.\u00a0 History Society\u2019s main interest in him is that he built Over Rectory. At least half of our members live in Over, including our Secretary.\u00a0 The History Society meets at 7.30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of the month in The Carol Shaw Room at Swavesey Village College \u2013 through the main entrance then 20 metres along the corridor to the right.\u00a0 No need to book so you are welcome to just walk in.\u00a0 If you want further information, contact our Secretary, Carolyn on carolyn.redmayne@ntlworld.com or on 01954 230037.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2399,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-4267","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4268,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4267\/revisions\/4268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}