BENSON, REV. CHRISTOPHER (_son of Thomas Benson of Cockermouth, solicitor_). _b._ Cockermouth 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1809, M.A. 1815; select preacher 1817; Hulsean lecturer (the first) 1820–22; fellow of Magd. coll. Cam. 1820; preb. of Worcester cathedral 27 Dec. 1825 to death; R. of St. Giles’s-in-the-Fields, London 1824–26; V. of Cropthorne, Worcs. 1826–40; master of the Temple London 1827–45; author of _Discourses on powers of the clergy_ 1841; _Baptism and baptismal regeneration_ 1843. _d._ Woodfield, Ross, Hereford 25 March 1868. _The living and the dead by a country curate_ (_Rev. E. Neale_) 1827 _pp._ 81–98; _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 413–15. BENSON, SIR JOHN (_only son of John Benson of Collooney, co. Sligo_). _b._ Collooney 1812; architect and civil engineer; county surveyor to east riding of co. Cork 8 April 1846; surveyor of city of Cork 29 Jany. 1851; architect and builder of Dublin exhibition 12 Aug. 1852 which was opened 12 May 1853, knighted by Earl of St. Germans at the opening; engineer of Cork waterworks which cost £80,000; built 48 bridges in co. Cork; M.I.C.E. 4 March 1862. _d._ 15 Alexander sq. Brompton London 17 Oct. 1874. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xl_, 251–53 (1875). BENSON, RICHARD. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel 11 Bengal N.I. 16 July 1849 to death; C.B. 3 April 1846; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ at his residence on lake of Buttermere, Cumberland 26 Aug. 1858. BENSON, REV. SAMUEL. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; lecturer at St. John’s Horsleydown 1823–33; chaplain of Horsemonger lane gaol 1833–43; V. of St. Saviour’s Southwark 1868 to death; author of several sermons and tracts. _d._ 34 Borough high st. London 22 Feb. 1881 aged 82. _I.L.N. xxiv_, 401 (1851), _portrait_. BENT, JEFFERY HART (_eld. son of Robert Bent of Lancashire_). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; barrister M.T. 7 Feb. 1806; chief justice of New South Wales 1814, of Grenada 1820 to 1833, of St. Lucia 1833 to 1836 and of British Guiana 1836 to death. _d._ George Town Demerara 29 June 1852 aged 72. _I.L.N. xxi_, 155 (1852). BENT, SIR JOHN (_eld. son of Wm. Bent of Stoneyfield near Newcastle under Lyne_). _b._ Newcastle under Lyne 1793; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch.; a large brewer at Liverpool; alderman of Liverpool, mayor 1850–51; knighted by the Queen at Liverpool 9 Oct. 1851. _d._ Edge hill near Liverpool 13 Aug. 1857. BENT, JOHN. Assistant surgeon in the army 11 Sep. 1838; served in the Crimea 30 April 1855 to end of the war; deputy surgeon general 28 Jany. 1862; surgeon general 11 July 1874 to death. _d._ The Camp Aldershot 23 Nov. 1874 aged 57. BENT, ROBERT (_son of Wm. Bent who founded Bent’s Literary Advertiser 1802_). Edited _The London Catalogue of books_ 1839. _d._ 6 Dec. 1859.