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Adm. pens. (age 19) at CHRIST'S, Dec. 30, 1819. [Eldest] s. of the Rev. William Benson (next). B. [July 4, 1801], at the Charterhouse. School, Charterhouse. Tancred Divinity student, 1819. ' Matric. Easter, 1820; B.A. 1825. Ord. deacon (London) Dec. 19, 1824; priest, Dec. 24, 1826. P.C. of Hales with Heckingham, Norfolk, 1841-4. R. of Buslingthorpe, Lincs., 1844-55. R. of Sudbrooke, 1855-67. Died Sept. 10, 1867. (List of Carthusians, which calls him W. Benson R. and confuses him with an Oxford contemporary (father of Arthur C. (1846); Peile, II. 397, which states that he was R. of Linwood, Lincs., and R. of Ashurst, Kent; R. L. Arrowsmith; G. Mag., 1867, II. 547; Burke, P. and B.)