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Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement/Benson, Edward White
BENSON, EDWARD WHITE (1829–1896), archbishop of Canterbury, was descended from a family of Yorkshire ' dalesmen,' to which belonged also George Benson the divine [q.
The Life of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury.
v.] and Robert Benson, lord Bingley [q. v.] The archbishop always spoke with pride of his sturdy 'forbears' and kinsmen in Craven. His grandfather. Captain White Benson, a boon companion of William Frederick, duke of Gloucester, squandered a handsome fortune, and left his widow and his only son, Edward White Benson the elder, in reduced circumstances.
Edward Frederic Benson OBE (24 July – 29 February ) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and short story writer.Edward White Benson, the archishop's father, set up as a chemical manufacturer in Birmingham, where the archbishop was born on 14 July 1829. The house was 72 Lombard Street. In 1843 the archbishop's father died, his end being hastened by the failure of his business; and the widow, a sister of Sir Thomas Baker of Manchester, who lived on in a small house in the closed works upon an
