Stockbroker and MP for Wootton Bassett (1808-12); after he was convicted and pardoned for stealing a large sum of money he was expelled from Parliament and purchased the Plymouth Chronicle from Cyrus Redding.

REFERENCES TO Benjamin Walsh:

William Godwin to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 4 March 1812 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)