Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Benson, Edward White


Benson, Edward White, M.A. Trinity Coll., Cambridge (B.A. 1852, fellow, M.A. 1855, B.D. 1862, D.D. 1867), ad eundem 4 June, 1856, 1st bishop of Truro 1877, archbishop of Canterbury 1883, created D.C.L. 24 April, 1884 (son of Edward White Benson, Esq., of York and Birmingham Heath), born 14 July, 1829. See Foster's Peerage.