Of Pontefract in York; he was lieutenant in the sixth regiment of foot before his retirement in 1799 after serving in the Irish Rebellion. He was the grandfather of Edward White Benson, archbishop of Canterbury.

CORRESPONDENCE OF White Benson:

White Benson to Sydney Owenson, [1798] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

White Benson to Sydney Owenson, [8 June 1798] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)