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BENSON, THOMAS, of London; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1600, Westminster Student Jan 1600/1-13, but before being adm. student went to Broadgates Hall, Oxford, matr. 12 Dec 1600, aged 18; BA 1604; MA 1607; BD 1618; MA 1622; ordained priest 30 May 1613 (York); Vicar of Wath on Dearne, Yorks., from May 1613; Chaplain to Archbishop of York 1616; Rector of Carlton-in-Lindrick, Notts., from 8 Oct 1616; Prebendary of Southwell 9 Mar 1622 and of York from 15 Jul 1625; Rector of Withernwick, Yorks., c. 1627; Rector of Walesby, Yorks., 1641; m.; buried at Carlton-in-Lindrick, Notts. 17 Aug 1644.

BENSON, THOMAS, son of Robert Benson, Leeds, Yorks. ; b. ; at school under Busby (Al. Cant. pt. I, i, 136); Sidney Sussex Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 16 Jul 1639, aged 17.

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BENT, JOHN, eldest son of James Bent MD, Bafford, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs.; bapt. Newcastle under Lyme 30 Dec 1776 (IGI); adm.; KS (aged 14) 1791; Capt. of the School 1795; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1796, adm. pens. 25 May 1796, scholar 29 Apr 1797, did not matr.; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 12 Jun 1798; d. from a wound caused by the accidental discharge of a fowling piece, 12 Nov 1798.

BENTHALL, ARTHUR, brother of William Benthall (qv); b. 5 Apr 1825; adm. 21 Jan 1833 (Benthall's); QS 1838; left 1839; Clare Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 10 Oct 1843, matr. Lent 1844; BA 1848; MA 1851; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 3 Nov 1843, called to bar 23 Nov 1848; a clerk in the Post Office 1850, subsequently Assistant Secretary; m. 1 Sep 1855 Alice Margaret, dau. of Rev. John Reynolds Wardale, Rector of Higham Gobion, Beds.; d. 16 Feb 1882.

BENTHALL, FRANCIS, brother of William Benthall (qv); b. 31 Mar 1816; adm. 16 Mar 1829; adm. solicitor 1839, practising first in City of London and then in Lincoln’s Inn Fields; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 19 Nov 1861, called to bar 6 Jun 1864; practised as a conveyancer; FSA 13 May 1841; m. 17 Dec 1859 Susannah, widow of David N. Bates, Sudbury, Suffolk; d. 6 May 1903.

BENTHALL, JOHN EVERETT, elder son of John Benthall (qv), and his first wife; b. 24 Mar 1836; adm. 6 Jan 1844; left 1846; d. 19 Nov 1846; buried in the North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

BENTHALL, JOHN, brother of William Benthall (qv); b. 8 Feb 1808 [but if so, too young for ordination as priest 1830 ?]; adm. (G) 12 Jan 1818; Min. Can. 1819; KS 1820; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1824, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1824, scholar 1825, matr. Mich. 1824; BA 1828; MA 1831 (incorp. Oxford 14 May 1853); ordained deacon (London) 14 Jun 1829, priest 5 Jun 1830; Usher at the School 1829-46, Housemaster 1832-46; Chaplain to Archibald Kennedy, 2nd Marquis of Ailsa (qv), 1846-70; Vicar of Willen, Bucks., from 1852; m. 1st, 20 May 1835 Harriet, youngest child of Joseph Everett, Salisbury, Wilts.; m. 2nd, 7 May 1861 Frances, dau. of William Levi, Moulsoe, nr. Newport Pagnell, Bucks.; d. 1 Sep 1887.

BENTHALL, THORNTON, brother of William Benthall (qv); b. 7 Oct 1814; adm. 12 Jan 1829; served in Danish Army during Prussian-Danish war of 1848-9; went to live in Christiania (now Oslo), where he established, under the name of Thomas Bennett, a tourist office well known throughout Norway; m.; d. at Christiania 7 Mar 1898.