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Benthall, William Henry, 1837-1909
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1837-1909
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BENTHALL, WILLIAM HENRY, younger son of John Benthall (qv) and his first wife; b. 3 Jul 1837; adm. 6 Jan 1844; left 1846; at Marlborough Coll. Feb 1851-Mich 1856; Clare Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 11 Jun 1856, scholar, matr. Mich. 1856; BA 1860; MA 1864; played rackets (doubles) for Cambridge 1858, cricket for Cambridge 1858-60, for Gentlemen v. Players 1859, 1861-3, and for Middlesex 1862, 1864, 1868; a clerk in the Board of Control, afterwards in the India Office; Precis Writer and Assistant Private Secretary to Sir Charles Wood, Lord Cranborne and Sir Stafford Northcote when Secretaries of State for India; Private Secretary to Duke of Argyll, Secretary of State for India, 1868-74; m. 5 Apr 1866 his cousin Edith Mary, dau. of Edward Benthall, EICS Bengal; d. 4 Jan 1909.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.