BENSLEY, JAMES, son of James Bensley, Wangford, Suffolk, and Susanna, dau. of Robert Pain, Lowestoft, Suffolk; bapt. 26 May 1732; adm. (aged 10) Feb 1741/2; KS 1747; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1751, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1751, scholar 24 Apr 1752, Minor Fellow 2 Oct 1756; was rusticated and admonished for “grave irregularity and misbehaviour” (W. W. R. Ball, Cambridge Papers, 1918, 223-4); BA 1755; MA 1758; adm. Inner Temple 15 Feb 1752, left 23 Nov 1755; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Jan 1756, called to bar 24 Jan 1757; one of the members of the Nonsense Club (Southey, Cowper, i, 37, 324, v, 132); lic. to m. 25 May 1758 Ann, widow of Andrew Didier (qv); killed by a fall from his horse 5 Apr 1765.
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