BENISCH, ABRAHAM. _b._ Drosan, Bohemia 1811; ed. at Univ. of Vienna; settled in England 1841; edited the _Jewish Chronicle_ 1854 to death; one of chief founders of Society of Hebrew Literature 1870, and of the Anglo Jewish Association 1871; author of _A translation of the Old Testament_ 1851; _An essay on Colenso’s criticism of the Pentateuch and Joshua_ 1863; _Judaism surveyed_ 1874. _d._ 13 Brownswood park, Green Lanes, London 31 July 1878. BENJAMIN, GEORGE. _b._ Sussex 15 April 1799; went to Canada; founded the _Intelligencer_ at Belleville 1834, edited it to 1848; member of legislative assembly Canada 1856–61; grand master of the Orangemen of British North America 1848; author of _Short lessons for members of Parliament compiled from English and other publications_ 1862. _d._ Belleville 6 July or 7 Sep. 1864. BENJAMIN, JUDAH PHILIP. _b._ St. Croix, West Indies 1811; ed. at Yale college, Connecticut 1825–28; called to the bar in New Orleans 16 Dec. 1832; member of firm of Slidell, Benjamin and Conrad 1840; counsellor of the supreme court New Orleans Dec. 1848; practised chiefly in Washington; a senator for Louisiana to the Senate 1852 to 4 Feb. 1861 when he withdrew, expelled the Senate 14 March 1861; attorney general of the Southern Confederacy Feb. 1861; acting secretary of war Aug. 1861 to Feb. 1862; sec. of state Feb. 1862 to April 1865 when the members of the cabinet left Richmond; a student L.I. 13 Jany. 1866, called to bar at L.I. 6 June 1866, bencher 15 April 1875; Q.C. for county palatine of Lancaster July 1869; Q.C. with patent of precedence 29 July 1872; made £15,000 a year for several years; entertained on his retirement, at a banquet in hall of Inner Temple 30 June 1883; author of _Digest of decisions of supreme court of New Orleans_ 1834; _Treatise of the law of sale of personal property_ 1868, _3 ed._ 1883. _d._ Avenue de Jena, Paris 6 May 1884. _J. Davis’s Rise and Fall of the Confederate government i_, 242 (1881), _portrait_; _Law Journal_ (1883) 100–103; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 465 (1884), _portrait_; _Graphic xxix_, 484 (1884), _portrait_. BENN, ANTHONY. _b._ 1814; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1832; col. 27 June 1864 to 6 March 1868; M.G. 6 March 1868. _d._ Plumstead 22 Dec. 1875. BENN, EDWARD (_son of John Benn of Belfast, brewer 1767–1853_). _b._ 1798; purchased with his brother George, an estate at Glenravel near Ballymena where they tried to create a new industry by manufacture of potato spirit; formed a fine archæological collection now in the Belfast Museum; contributed papers to Irish antiquarian journals; founded 3 hospitals in Belfast, the Eye Ear and Throat, the Samaritan and the Skin Diseases. _d._ 1874.