ABSTRACT
Jeremy Bentham was a political theorist and self-appointed constitutional adviser to governments in Europe and newly independent states of Latin America. For the history of planning, it is perhaps Bentham's Manual of Political Economy, originally written in 1800 but only published by Sir John Bowring in 1843, twelve years after Bentham's death, which is more useful as a concise summary of Bentham's writings on the economy and colonisation. Bentham established the components of wellbeing as subsistence, security and enjoyment. Thomas Maslen was a retired officer from the East India Company. His father had been an architect and he himself developed an interest in studying and drawing buildings on his travels in Europe, India and South Africa. In 1830 he published a plan for exploring and surveying the Australian Interior entitled The Friend of Australia. The Savannah plan was clearly one of the sources for Buckingham, but a reading of Buckingham's work shows that he drew on wide range of material.
