Editing Jeremy Bentham (section)

===Personal life===
Bentham lived a highly structured and disciplined life, but he also exhibited eccentric behavior. He referred to his walking stick as "Dapple" and his cat as "The Reverend Sir John Langbourne." He had several infatuations with women, and wrote on sex.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/26/sexual-irregularities-morality-jeremy-bentham-review|title = Of Sexual Irregularities by Jeremy Bentham – review|website = [[TheGuardian.com]]|date = 26 June 2014}}</ref> But he never married.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bentham/#LifWri|title = The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|chapter = Jeremy Bentham|year = 2021|publisher = Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}}</ref> Bentham's daily pattern was to rise at 6 am, walk for 2 hours or more, and then work until 4 pm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.utilitarianism.com/jeremy-bentham/life.html|title=Jeremy Bentham : founder of utilitarianism|website=www.utilitarianism.com}}</ref>

An insight into his character is given in Michael St. John Packe's ''The Life of John Stuart Mill'':

{{blockquote|During his youthful visits to [[Bowood House]], the country seat of his patron [[William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne|Lord Lansdowne]], he had passed his time at falling unsuccessfully in love with all the ladies of the house, whom he courted with a clumsy jocularity, while playing [[chess]] with them or giving them lessons on the [[harpsichord]]. Hopeful to the last, at the age of eighty he wrote again to one of them, recalling to her memory the far-off days when she had "presented him, in ceremony, with the flower in the green lane" [citing Bentham's memoirs]. To the end of his life he could not hear of Bowood without tears swimming in his eyes, and he was forced to exclaim, "Take me forward, I entreat you, to the future—do not let me go back to the past."{{sfn|Packe|1954|p=16}}}}

A [[Psychobiography|psychobiographical]] study by Philip Lucas and Anne Sheeran argues that he may have had [[Asperger syndrome|Asperger's syndrome]].{{sfn|Lucas|Sheeran|2006|pp= 26–27}}