John Bowring (1792 – 1872) created and published a (1834) Benthamite text known as “History of the Greatest Happiness Principle” published near the end of Bentham’s Deontology. Because I am myself not a bona fide Bentham scholar — although about to publish my first real paper on him and at least aware enough to realize that Bowring’s edition has been discredited — I am not wholly sure whether some contemporary scholars treat the authorship of “History of the Greatest Happiness Principle” (hereafter History) as principally Bowring’s now. (This is also the natural reading of the text.) We do know that the 1834 History was, at least in part, based on Bentham’s manuscript ‘A Short History of Utilitarianism.’ Somewhat sadly I am unaware of the exact relation between the two texts.
Bowring's reading of Locke wasn't nuanced. But Locke doesn't deserve nuance, any more than other apologists for slavery.