![]() Īt Cambridge he fell in love with Vincent Yorke. At Cambridge, he was a member of the Pitt Club, and later in life he became an honorary fellow of Magdalene College. He continued his education at King's College, Cambridge. Benson's parents had six children and no grandchildren.īenson was educated at Temple Grove School, then at Marlborough College, where he wrote some of his earliest works and upon which he based his novel David Blaize. Benson was the younger brother of Arthur Christopher Benson, who wrote the words to " Land of Hope and Glory", Robert Hugh Benson, author of several novels and Roman Catholic apologetic works, and Margaret Benson (Maggie), an author and amateur Egyptologist. ![]() ![]() Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, the fifth child of the headmaster, Edward White Benson (later Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, Bishop of Truro and Archbishop of Canterbury), and his wife born Mary Sidgwick ("Minnie").Į. ![]()
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