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'''Sir William Gurney Benham''' Kt, [[Justice of the peace|JP]], [[Society of Antiquaries of London|FSA]], [[Royal Historical Society|FRHistS]] (16 February 1859,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/birthdays-1319248.html|title=Birthdays|publisher=The Independent|date=16 February 1996|accessdate=2 January 2010}}</ref> [[Colchester]] – 13 May 1944,<ref name="gas">{{Cite journal|title=Obituary|journal=Gas journal|volume=243/4|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?cd=5&id=nh_nAAAAMAAJ|year=1944}}</ref> Colchester<ref name="colcestrian">{{Cite news|newspaper=The Colcestrian|publisher=Colchester Royal Grammar School|date=July 1944|pages=30–1|title=Obituary list: The Late Sir Gurney Benham}}</ref>) was a newspaper editor, published author and three times [[Mayor of Colchester]].
'''Sir William Gurney Benham''' Kt, [[Justice of the peace|JP]], [[Society of Antiquaries of London|FSA]], [[Royal Historical Society|FRHistS]] ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|ɛ|n|ə|m); 16 February 1859,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/birthdays-1319248.html|title=Birthdays|publisher=The Independent|date=16 February 1996|accessdate=2 January 2010}}</ref> [[Colchester]] – 13 May 1944,<ref name="gas">{{Cite journal|title=Obituary|journal=Gas journal|volume=243/4|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?cd=5&id=nh_nAAAAMAAJ|year=1944}}</ref> Colchester<ref name="colcestrian">{{Cite news|newspaper=The Colcestrian|publisher=Colchester Royal Grammar School|date=July 1944|pages=30–1|title=Obituary list: The Late Sir Gurney Benham}}</ref>) was a newspaper editor, published author and three times [[Mayor of Colchester]].


Gurney Benham was born on 16 February 1859 and educated at the [[Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood|Merchant Taylors' School]] until 1873,<ref name="merchants"/> and thereafter at [[Colchester Royal Grammar School]], a school about which he has written, of whose old boys' society he was later President and which still has a building named after him.<ref name="colcestrian"/> Gurney Benham was the son of [[Edward Benham]], a printer, and father to [[Hervey Benham]], himself an author. His first job was as a journalist in [[Wiltshire]] from 1881 to 1884.<ref name="merchants">{{Cite book|title=Merchant Taylors' School register, 1851-1920|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_4tBAAAAYAAJ|year=1923|page=70}}</ref>
Gurney Benham was born on 16 February 1859 and educated at the [[Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood|Merchant Taylors' School]] until 1873,<ref name="merchants"/> and thereafter at [[Colchester Royal Grammar School]], a school about which he has written, of whose old boys' society he was later President and which still has a building named after him.<ref name="colcestrian"/> Gurney Benham was the son of [[Edward Benham]], a printer, and father to [[Hervey Benham]], himself an author. His first job was as a journalist in [[Wiltshire]] from 1881 to 1884.<ref name="merchants">{{Cite book|title=Merchant Taylors' School register, 1851-1920|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_4tBAAAAYAAJ|year=1923|page=70}}</ref>

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William Gurney Benham
Gurney Benham c. 1916
Born(1859-02-16)February 16, 1859
Colchester, Essex, England
DiedMay 13, 1944(1944-05-13) (aged 85)
Colchester, Essex, England
ChildrenHervey Benham

Sir William Gurney Benham Kt, JP, FSA, FRHistS ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|ɛ|n|ə|m); 16 February 1859,[1] Colchester – 13 May 1944,[2] Colchester[3]) was a newspaper editor, published author and three times Mayor of Colchester.

Gurney Benham was born on 16 February 1859 and educated at the Merchant Taylors' School until 1873,[4] and thereafter at Colchester Royal Grammar School, a school about which he has written, of whose old boys' society he was later President and which still has a building named after him.[3] Gurney Benham was the son of Edward Benham, a printer, and father to Hervey Benham, himself an author. His first job was as a journalist in Wiltshire from 1881 to 1884.[4]

He took over the family printing business and edited the Essex County Standard from 1884.[4] A "conscientious as well as an excellent scholar",[5][6] he is now mainly known through his many publications, many of which are transcriptions of official documents from mediaeval times, particularly those related to his home town of Colchester. He also compiled a number of books of quotations, leading a reviewer in the Journal of Education to comment after his death, "it is remarkable that one man — Sir William Gurney Benham — was able to collect and arrange some fifty thousand quotations and proverbs".[7] For ten years he was also editor of the Essex Review.[8]

In addition, Gurney Benham was mayor of Colchester three times, for the years 1892/93, 1908/09 and 1933/34,[9] in 1933 was appointed to the honour of High Steward of Colchester and was knighted in 1935 in recognition of his public service.[3] He remained editor of the Standard until 1943,[6] and was a director of the Colchester Gas Company for over forty years, being chairman until his resignation on grounds of ill health the day before his death on 13 May 1944.[2] Gurney Benham Close, a street in Colchester is named after him.

Publications

  • Playing Cards: The History and Secrets of the Pack
  • Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words (1924, reprinted 1929)
  • Dictionary of Quotations. 1907, revised 1948. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)[10]
  • Prose quotations: classified under prose-headings, and fully indexed. London: Cassell. 1926.
  • A Short History of Playing Cards
  • Benham's New Book of Quotations
  • The oath book; or, Red parchment book of Colchester

References

  1. ^ "Birthdays". The Independent. 16 February 1996. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Obituary". Gas journal. 243/4. 1944.
  3. ^ a b c "Obituary list: The Late Sir Gurney Benham". The Colcestrian. Colchester Royal Grammar School. July 1944. pp. 30–1.
  4. ^ a b c Merchant Taylors' School register, 1851-1920. 1923. p. 70.
  5. ^ Partridge, Eric (1986). Dictionary of Catch Phrases. London: Routledge. p. 251. ISBN 0-415-05916-X.
  6. ^ a b A P Baggs, Beryl Board, Philip Crummy, Claude Dove, Shirley Durgan, N R Goose, R B Pugh, Pamela Studd, C C Thornton (1994). Social and cultural institutions. Vol. 9. pp. 298–303. Retrieved 2009-04-08. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Benham's Book of Quotations: Proverbs and Household Words [review]". The Journal of Education. 81: 56. 1949.
  8. ^ The Antiquaries Journal. 24/5. Society of Antiquaries of London. 1944 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8bA8AAAAIAAJ. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ^ "Colchester Borough Mayors since 1836". Colchester Borough Council. 9 July 2009. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  10. ^ Partridge, Eric (1986). Dictionary of Catch Phrases. London: Routledge. Abbreviations. ISBN 0-415-05916-X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |nopp= ignored (|no-pp= suggested) (help)

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