Christopher Benson (theologian)
Ross on Wye , England | |
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Spouse |
Bertha Maria Mitford
(m. 1826) |
Ecclesiastical career | |
Religion | Christianity ( Anglican) |
Church | Church of England |
Ordained | c. 1812 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Theology |
Institutions | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
Christopher Benson (1788–1868) was a
Life
Benson was born on 16 January 1788 at Cockermouth, a country town in the far north-west of England. His father, Thomas Benson, was a solicitor. He attended Eton College before winning a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1804. Five years later he emerged with a BA degree. He received his MA degree six years after that, in 1815.[3] Meanwhile, he was ordained, and was appointed in 1812 as a curate at St. John's parish in Newcastle upon Tyne.[4] A few years later he was appointed to a curacy at St Giles in the Fields in London where he would preach his farewell sermon only in September 1826.[5] By that time, however, much of his focus had been back in Cambridge for some years.
In 1817 Christopher Benson was selected to give a series of sermons at
The second volume of Hulsean lectures was dedicated not to more masters of Cambridge colleges but to "Granville Hastings Wheler of ... Kent [and] ... Ledstone Hall in the County of Yorkshire". Wheler had influence in the west of Yorkshire because of an inheritance involving his kinswoman, Lady Elizabeth Hastings, and it was as a result of his intervention that in 1822 Christopher Benson became vicar of Ledsham,[9] a post which for the time being he was able to combine with being a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.[3]
In 1825 Benson was appointed canon at
Through his career Benson retained his power as a preacher. He adhered to what one source describes as the 'broader evangelical school', which places him add odds with the evolving
Personal
Christopher Benson married Bertha Maria Mitford (1804–1873), the daughter of a London lawyer (and a distant kinswoman of the writer Nancy Mitford and her sisters), on 27 July 1826.[11] He predeceased his wife by approximately five years when he died on 25 March 1868 at Ross on Wye.[3]
References
- ^ a b Lewis Sergeant (1885). "Benson, Christopher (1789–1868), prebendary and ..." Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder & Co. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ^ a b c Christopher Benson, late of Trinity College and now of Magdalene College, Cambridge (1822). Hulsean lectures for 1820: Twenty discourses preached before the University of Cambridge in the year 1820, at the lecture founded by the Rev. John Hulse. printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, London.
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has generic name (help) (Subscription or UK public library membership - ^ Eneas Mackenzie (1827). "St. Johns's Church". Historical Account of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Including the Borough of Gateshead. Mackenzie and Dent, Newcastle-upon-Tyne & British History online. pp. 342–357. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
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- ^ a b Christopher Benson (1819). The Chronology of Our Saviour's Life, or an Inquiry into the True Time of the Birth, Baptism, and Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. CUP.
- ^ "The Hulsean Lectureship". Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge. Chapter XII, Section 2, heading 3–24. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ^ Christopher Benson, Fellow of Magdalene College and Vicar of Ledsham, Yorkshire (1822). Twenty discourses on Scripture Difficulties, preached before the University of Cambridge. printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, London.
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ignored (help) - ^ William Courthope, ed. (1838). [Descendants of] John Thomas Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale. printed by George Woodfall, London for J.G. & F. Rivington. p. 311.
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