A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Benson, Robert

by John Hutchinson

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Admitted 7 February, 1818.

Third son of the Rev. Edmund Benson, Priest-vicar of Salisbury Cathedral. He was born at Salisbury 5 Feb. 1797. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar 23 Nov. 1821. He was appointed Deputy Recorder of Salisbury in 1829, and Recorder 1836. He died in Salisbury 21 June, 1844, and was buried in the Cathedral.

In 1825 he published Sketches in Corsica, the result of a visit to that island in 1823 as a Commissioner on the affairs of General Paoli. He was also the author of The Life and Writings of the Rev. Arthur Collier, his best known work, 1837, and of a History of Salisbury, forming part of Sir Richard Colt Hoare's History of Wiltshire.