Benson, Right Honorable

D.D. (hon. Cambridge, 1864), F.R.G.S., dean of Lich field, Church of England; b. at Acton, Suffolk, Oct. 23, 1814; was scholar of Sidney Su ex College, Cambridge; graduated B.A. (senior optime), 1836; M.A., 1839; wrote the theological prize e ay, and became licentiate in theology at Durham University, 1837; was ordained deacon, 1837; priest, 1839; curate of Chetton, 1838; the Abbey, Shrews bury, 1839; perpetual curate of Penn street, Bucks, and rural dean of Amersham, 1849; vicar of Aylesbury, and archdeacon of Bucking ham, 1853; dean of Lich field, 1875. He was select preacher at Cambridge in 1861, 1864, 1873, and 1878, and at Oxford in 1875; prolocutor of the Convocation of Canterbury, 1864-80. He is chairman of the Executive Committee of the Central Council of Diocesan Conferences, and was a New-Testament reviser. He is the author of Questions illustrating the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, London, 1844, 6th ed. 1877; The Mercian Church and St. Chad (a sermon), 1880, 2d ed. 1881; My Hereafter, 1883; The Revised Version of the New Testament (a lecture), 1885. He contributed the commentary on St. Mark's Gospel to The Pulpit Commentary, 1882, 5th ed. 1885; and in 1877 edited the fifth edition of R. W. Evan's Bishopric of Souls, originally published 1842, with a memoir of the author.