LORD BYRON and his TIMES
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| LBT ID: WhBenso1806 | B/BAP: 1777-02-07 DIED: 1806 |
| SOURCES: Arthur Christopher Benson, Genealogy of the Family of Benson of Banger House and Northwoods (1894) 12; W. H. Auden: Family Ghosts | |
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. | |
REFERENCES TO White Benson: Sydney Owenson to Robert Owenson, [1798] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1:
¶ 2 | |
