Paul Benfield

(1741-1810)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Benfield, Paul, ca. 1740-1810 NRA: Benfield Paul (1741-1810) MP Anglo Indian Merchant DNB: Benfield, Paul (1741–1810), financier in India LBT ID: PaBenfi1810 VIAF ID: 38933956 LOC ID: no90007685	B/BAP: 1741-01-25 DIED: 1810-04
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Indian nabob who entered into an unfortunate banking partnership with Walter Boyd; he died a pauper interned in France during the war.
REFERENCES TO Paul Benfield: Thomas Creevey to James Currie, 11 May 1805 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Creevey to James Currie, 28 July 1805 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1828 Found 1: ¶ 14 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. II: 1805 Found 1: ¶ n2