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BENNETT, WILLIAM HENRY, only son of William James Early Bennett (qv); b. 30 Aug 1834; adm. 29 Jan 1847 (Rigaud's); QS (Capt. ) 1848; left 1850; Cadet, EICS Bengal, 1853; Ensign, Native Infantry, unattached, 13 Feb 1853; 7th Bengal Native Infantry, 6 Sep 1853; 2nd European Fusiliers, 16 Feb 1854; d. at Prome, Burma, 22 Aug 1854.

Bennett-Dampier, Arthur Cecil William, son of Capt. W. H. Bennett-Dampier, of Chelsea; b. Feb. 17, 1897; adm. Jan. 16, 1908 (R); left Easter 1909.

Berens, Atherton, youngest son of Richard Benyon Berens (q.v.); b. May 21, 1877; adm. Jan. 15, 1891 (R); left July 1896; Pembroke Coll. Oxon., matric. Jan. 1897; served in Great War I in the R.A.S.C. 1915-8; m. Nov. 3, 1906, Wenefride Dorothy, eldest daughter of Joseph Watson Overbury, of Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, London; d. Feb. 1940.

Berens, Edward, fifth son of Richard Benyon Berens (q.v.); b. Oct. 24, 1873; adm. May 10, 1888 (R); left July 1892; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Oct. 1892; B.A. 1897; d. Oct. 1938.

Berryman, Frederic Donald, brother of Montague Levander Berryman (q.v.); b. Oct. 15, 1902; adm. Sept. 23, 1915 (R); left Dec. 1920; admitted a solicitor Oct. 1926.

Berryman, Frederick Donald, brother of Montague Levander Berryman (qv); b. 15 Oct. 1902; adm. Sept. 1915 (R); left Dec. 1920; adm. a solicitor Oct. 1926; practised in City of London; retd 1979; d. 6 June 1990.

Berryman, Montague Levander, son of Frederic John Berryman, of Lewisham, Kent, solicitor, by Mabel, daughter of James Wright, of Barnstaple, Devon; b. July 21, 1899; adm. Jan. 16, 1913 (R); left Dec. 1917; served in the 3rd Batt. Royal Sussex Regt. during Great War I; 2nd Lieut. Aug. 28, 1918; called to the bar at the Middle Temple Jan. 26, 1921; S.E. Circuit; editor of the eighth edition of Elliott's Workmen's Compensation Acts (1925); K.C. 1945; Recorder of Gravesend 1945; of Dover 1947; Deputy Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for Herts 1959; m. Aug. 22, 1923, Marjorie, daughter of Addy Nunn Myhill, of Saffron Walden, Essex; d. 1974.

Besson, Frank (Cisco), son of Anthony and Martha Besson, of London; b. Dec. 16, 1895; adm. April 28, 1910 (R); left Dec. 1914; Flight Sub-Lieut. R.N.A.S. Dec. 21, 1914; gazetted after his death Lieut. Jan. 1, 1916; served at Dunkirk Aug. 1915; went out to the Dardanelles Sept. 9, 1915; drowned off the Gallipoli Peninsula whilst on reconnaisance patrol, his machine being brought down in the sea by the enemy, and his observer captured, Dec. 20, 1915; unm.

BETHAM, CECIL WILLIAM, eldest son of Molyneux Cecil John Betham, Rockford, Co. Dublin, barrister, Cork Herald, and Elizabeth, only dau. of Sir Richard Ford (qv); b. 14 Apr 1840; adm. 19 Oct 1849 (Rigaud's); Ensign, 54th Foot, 20 Feb 1863; retd. 13 Feb 1866; m. 29 Apr 1869 Emily, dau. of John Mallet Williamson, Monkstown, Co. Dublin.

Beyts, Anthony Grant Ayerst, son of Cyril Freeman Beyts MC, cotton merchant, of Ramleh, Egypt, and Flora Mary Penuel, d. of Rev. Nicholas MacDonald, Baptist minister, previously stockbroker, of Chard, Somerset; b. 27 Dec. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (R); left Apr. 1933; King's Coll. Lond.; Indian Army 1938-48 (Maj.), serving with Rajputana Rifles and Chitral Scouts; export business in New Delhi; m. 1946 Joan Hilary, d. of Frank Lewis Brigstocke ICS, and widow of R. A. Lendon Smith, Fellow of Trin. Coll. Camb.; d. 10 Oct. 1997.