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Robin
Benson |
Old Etonians FC
uncapped
1875
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Timeline |
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Robert Henry Benson BA |
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Birth |
Tuesday, 24 September 1850 at Fairfield House, Fairfield, Manchester,
Lancashire [registered in Ashton-under-Lyme, December 1850].
"On the 24th inst., at Fairfield, near
Manchester, Mrs. Robert Benson, of a son." - Saturday, 28
September 1850, The Standard; also Monday, 30 September 1850, Morning
Chronicle/Morning Herald
Attended
Eton College, and Balliol College, Oxford |
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Baptism |
1 November
1850 at St. Stephen Church in Audenshaw. |
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According to the 1851
census, Robert is the only child to Robert, a cotton spinner and
manufacturer, and Eleanor Sara (née Moorsom). They have four female
servants and they live on Manchester Road in Audenshaw. |
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According to the 1861 census,
without the young Robert, his parents, along with younger siblings,
Constantine William and Mary Constance, are living at 16 Craven Hill
Gardens in Paddington, along with seven servants. His father is simply
stated as being a 'merchant'.
Robert was probably at Eton College |
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According to the 1871 census,
Robert, now an undergraduate at Oxford, his home with his father, a
merchant, still at 16 Craven Hill Gardens.
unable to verify rest of
the household as census record is missing |
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According to the 1881
census, Robert is now an American Merchant living at 18 Kensington Square
in Chelsea with his brother, and his wife, and his sister, along with
three female servants. |
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Marriage |
to Evelyn Holford at 2.30pm, Thursday, 7
July 1887, on St. George's Church, Hanover Square
[registered in St George Hanover Square, September 1887]. |
"MARRIAGE OF MISS HOLFORD
"On
Thursday afternoon a numerous and distinguished company assembled at
Dorchester House, Park-lane, at the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Holford, on
the occasion of the marriage of their second daughter, Miss Evelyn Holford,
and Mr. Robert H. Benson. The bridegroom, Mr. Robert Henry Benson, is the
eldest son of the late Mr. Robert Benson, and was born in 1850. He was
educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, and after graduating with
honours read for a short time at the bar, till he went into business. He
is now senior partner with his brother in the Old American banking house
of Robert Benson and Co. in London. In the neighbourhood of Weston Birt,
and indeed throughout the Tetbury district, where Mr. and Mrs. Holford and
their family are held in universal esteem and affection, the happy event
was looked forward to with great interest and pleasure. The ceremony took
place at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, at 2.30. The Hon. Spencer
Lyttelton was the best man, and the bride was attended by six bridesmaids,
all children. The bride was accompanied by her father, who afterwards gave
her away. Close behind the bride were two pages. The service was choral,
the Rev. Edwyn Hoskyns, rector of Stepney, officiated, assisted by the
Rev. Canon Capel Cure, rector of the parish. Mr. and Mrs. Holford
afterwards received the wedding party at Dorchester House, Park-lane. At
half-past four the newly married couple left for Overstone, Lord and Lady
Wantage's seat in Northamptonshire, for the honeymoon."
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Saturday, 9 July 1887, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire
Standard. |
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According to the 1891
census, which cannot be found, Robert and Evelyn would have had two
children, Guy Holford (b.23 May 1888) and Reginald Lindsay (b.20 August
1889).
However, Guy and Reginald were with their maternal grandparents,
Robert and Mary Holford, at Westonbirt House in Tetbury. |
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According to the 1901
census, Robert, still married to Evelyn, a merchant and banker, living at
16 South Street in Westminster, along with three more children, Margaret
Winifred (b.17 April 1892), Constantine Evelyn (b.10 April 1895) and
Rosalind Frances (b.21 September 1899), and his brother and along with 21
servants.
According to Passenger Lists, 56 year old banker, Benson,
arrived in New York on 23 October 1906 from Liverpool on board the SS
Caronia, bound for Ottowa. |
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According to the 1911
census, Robert is living at Buckhurst in Withyham in Sussex with one of
his sons, Guy, and ten servants. He is a merchant banker. |
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Death |
Sunday, 7 April 1929 at Walpole House,
Chiswick Mall, aged
78 years 195 days
[registered in Brentford, June 1929]. Buried in St. Catherine's
churchyard in Westonbirt. |
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Obituary |
"MR. R. H. BENSON DEAD.—Banker and
Well-known Art Collector.
"Mr.
Robert Henry Benson, banker and art collector, died yesterday at this
home, Walpole House, Chiswick Mall, London, aged 79. As the senior partner
in the firm of Robert Benson and Co., Ltd., merchant bankers, Old Broad
Street, London, Mr. Benson was well known in the banking world, but he was
equally well known as an art collector. He was the owner of a valuable
collection of pictures, chiefly of the early Italian period, and of early
Chinese porcelain. Since 1912 he had served as a trustee of the National
Gallery, and was a member of the Council of the Royal College of Music. In
his younger days, Mr. Benson gained considerable prominence as an athlete
at Eton and Oxford."
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Monday,
8 April 1929, The Sheffield Daily Telegraph |
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Probate |
"BENSON
Robert Henry of 24 Old Broad-street
London
and of Walpole House Chiswick Mall Chiswick
Middlesex and of
Buckhurst Withyham
Middlesex died 7 April 1929 Probate
London
26 June to
Guy Holford Benson director and Reginald Lindsay Benson major H. M.
Army."
Effects £116481 6s. 3d."
[2020 equivalent: £7,567,339] |
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Playing
Career |
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Club(s) |
Benson earned his blue at Oxford University in
athletics between 1870 and 1873, becoming President of the Athletic Club
in 1872. He played his football at Eton and at Oxford, and after leaving
University, was also playing for the Wanderers FC. |
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Club honours |
FA Cup
winner 1873-74, runners-up
1874-75; |
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None |
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Height/Weight |
5' 9" [1906] |
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England
Career |
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Position(s) |
Forward |
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Beyond England |
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Admitted to the Inner Temple to read for The Bar in January 1873.
Graduated from University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1874. In October of
that year, Benson went to Boston to join the family merchant business, but
returned at the turn of the new year following the death of his father, to
set up ventures in merchant banking. Also a director in Telegraph and
Electric companies. Became an art collector after his marriage. |
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