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Person
Authorized form of name
Bentley, Percy Jardine
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Description area
Dates of existence
1898-1962
History
Percy Jardine Bentley was born in Brookfield, Nova Scotia, in 1898. He received his early education in Wallace, Nova Scotia, before attending Acadia University. During World War One, Bentley served overseas with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. After the war, he earned a BSc in mechanical engineering from Nova Scotia Technical College, following which he received an MSc from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1925). He was employed at the Ingersoll-Rand Company after graduating, where he became a plant manager in 1936. He died in May 1962 in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.