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Benham (surname)
Benham is an Anglo-Scottish locational surname, from Benham, Berkshire, or Binham, Norfolk. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew E. K. Benham (1832–1905), American admiral * Charles Benham (1860–1929) Author, newspaper editor and amateur scientist * Chris Benham, cricketer * Ellen Ida Benham (1871–1917) science teacher in South Australia. * Flip Benham, Christian fundamentalist * Henry Washington Benham, 19th-century American soldier * Isabel Benham (1909–2013), American railroad finance expert * Jade Benham, Australian politician * Jane Benham Hay (1829–1904), English artist * Jessica Benham, American politician and disability rights activist * Joan Benham, actress. * John Lee Benham (1785–1864), founder of Benham & Sons of Wigmore Street, London, cooking apparatus manufacturers ** Edward Benham (died 1869), son of the above and founder of Benham & Co., printers of Colchester, Essex. Editor of '' Essex County Standard'' *** Sir William Gurney Benham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglo-Scottish
Anglo is a prefix indicating a relation to, or descent from, the Angles, England, English culture, the English people or the English language, such as in the term ''Anglosphere''. It is often used alone, somewhat loosely, to refer to people of British descent in Anglo-America, the Anglophone Caribbean, South Africa, Namibia, Australia, and New Zealand. It is used in Canada to differentiate between the French speakers (Francophone) of mainly Quebec and some parts of New Brunswick, and the English speakers (Anglophone) in the rest of Canada. It is also used in the United States to distinguish the Latino population from the non-Latino white majority. Anglo is a Late Latin prefix used to denote ''English-'' in conjunction with another toponym or demonym. The word is derived from Anglia, the Latin name for England and still used in the modern name for its eastern region, East Anglia. Anglia and England both mean ''land of the Angles'', a Germanic people originating in the north ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Benham
Joan may refer to: People and fictional characters *Joan (given name), including a list of women, men and fictional characters *:Joan of Arc, a French military heroine *Joan (surname) Weather events *Tropical Storm Joan (other), multiple tropical cyclones are named Joan Music * ''Joan'' (album), a 1967 album by Joan Baez *"Joan", a song by The Art Bears from their 1978 album ''Hopes and Fears'' *"Joan", a song by Lene Lovich from her 1980 album ''Flex'' *"Joan", a song by Erasure from their 1991 album ''Chorus'' *"Joan", a song by The Innocence Mission from their 1991 album ''Umbrella'' *"Joan", a song by God Is My Co-Pilot from their 1992 album ''I Am Not This Body'' Other uses *Jōan (era), a Japanese era name * ''Joan'' (play), 2015 one-woman play written by Lucy J. Skillbeck *Joan Township, Ontario, a geographic township See also *''Jo-an'' tea house, National Treasure in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, Japan * *Jane (other) *Jean (other) *Jeanne (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Blaxland Benham
Sir William Blaxland Benham (29 March 1860 – 21 August 1950) was a New Zealand zoologist. Biography He was born in Isleworth, Middlesex, England, on 29 March 1860. He studied at Marlborough College and London University and taught at Bedford College, London (now part of Royal Holloway, University of London) before moving to New Zealand in 1898. He was a member of the 1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition. From 1905 to 1911 he was the Governor in Council of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute. Benham was professor of biology at the University of Otago from 1898 until he retired and was given the title of professor emeritus in 1937. In 1937, he was awarded the King George VI Coronation Medal, and he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1939 King's Birthday Honours. He won the Hutton Medal of the New Zealand Institute in 1911, and the Hector Medal in 1935. In 1942, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Benham (priest)
William Benham (15 January 1831–30 July 1910) was a British churchman, academic and author. Early life Born on 15 January 1831 at West Meon in Hampshire, where his father James Benham was postmaster, he was educated at the village school. Its founder, the rector Henry Vincent Bayley, made him his secretary, taught him Greek and Latin, and at his death left instructions that the boy's education should be continued. Benham was sent in 1844 to St. Mark's College, Chelsea, recently established under Derwent Coleridge, to be trained as a schoolmaster. On completing his course he taught in a rural school, and was tutor to John Sebright between 1849 and 1852. With the support of Bayley's family he was able to attend the theological department of King's College, London, where his religious position was influenced by F. D. Maurice. Priest In 1857 Benham was ordained deacon, and priest in 1858. He was appointed divinity tutor and lecturer in English literature at St. Mark's, Chelsea, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Robert Benham
Captain Robert Benham (November 17, 1750 – February 6, 1809), was a frontier pioneer, served in local government and was a member of the first elected legislature for the State in Ohio, 1799 & 1800. Family Benham was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey - the son of Peter Benham (1724-1780) and Ann James (d. 1758). After the death of his mother, he and his siblings, John, Richard, Amey, Peter and Catherine, were taken by his father and stepmother to be baptized at the Old Tennent Church in Manalapan Township, New Jersey May 31, 1759.Cooley, Elizabeth Morrow, "The Benham Brothers - Robert, Peter, and Richard: Early Settlers of Southwestern Ohio and Northern Kentucky", Bulletin of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, Volume 10, No. 1, p. 72 After the removal of his father and step mother to Loudoun County, Virginia, Robert Benham and his siblings were reared by their maternal grandfather, Robert James. His father was a lineal descendant of John Benham who settled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Benham (judge)
Robert Benham (born September 25, 1946) is a retired American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of Georgia for over 30 years, retiring in March 2020. He was the second African-American graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the first African-American to serve as the court's chief justice. Early life and education Justice Benham is a lifelong resident of Georgia, and was born to Jesse Knox Benham and Clarence Benham in Cartersville, Georgia. He graduated from Summer Hill High School in Cartersville in 1963, and Tuskegee University with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science in 1967, attended Harvard University, graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 1970, and received his Master of Laws from the University of Virginia in 1989. While attending the University of Georgia, he was a member of the Demosthenian Literary Society. After comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Benham
Jane Mary Benham MBE (28 January 1943 – June 1992) was an English painter and sailor who was instrumental in the formation and operation of the East Coast Sail Trust. Early life Born in Colchester, Essex, Jane Benham was the daughter of Hervey Benham and a granddaughter of William Gurney Benham, who between them edited the ''Essex County Standard'' from 1884 to 1964. Her father was also a prolific author of books, in particular about sailing and shipping on the east coast. She was brought up in Fingringhoe and West Mersea, Essex, and educated at St Mary's School, Colchester and St Felix School, Southwold. Artist and benefactor Benham was a prolific and accomplished artist, painting mainly small works in oils, acrylics, and watercolour, principally of Essex coastal scenes. She was a strong and generous supporter of several charities, as well as a number of individuals whose hardship came to her notice. When not at sea, Benham lived during most of her life at Maldon, Essex. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hervey Benham
Hervey William Gurney Benham (; 1910–1987) was an English journalist, the founding proprietor of Essex County Newspapers, an author of books on Essex and the East Coast, a musician, and benefactor. Of his at least fourteen books, among the best known are ''Down Tops'l'', ''Last Stronghold of Sail'' and ''Once Upon a Tide''. Biography Hervey Benham was the son of William Gurney Benham (three-times Mayor of Colchester and editor of the ''Essex County Standard'' from 1884 to 1943) and Ethel Hervey Elwes. He succeeded his father as editor of the ''Essex County Standard'' from 1943 to 1965. In 1964 he commenced production of the paper using web-offset lithography a revolutionary printing process that he had pioneered with fellow newspaper proprietor Arnold Quick in Colchester, Essex. The Standard was described by the trade paper ''Printing World'' as Britain's best produced weekly newspaper. His daughter, Jane Benham, played a significant role in the maritime educational East Coast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gurney Benham
Sir William Gurney Benham, FSA, FRHS (; 16 February 1859 – 13 May 1944) was a British newspaper editor, published author and three times Mayor of Colchester. Early life and family William Benham was born on 16 February 1859 to Edward Benham, a printer, and Mary Carr. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School until 1873 and then 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. In 1904 he married Ethel Hervey Elwes and had three children: Edith Tayspill Benham (1905-1955), Hervey William Gurney Benham (1910-1987) and Maura Elwes Mary Benham (1912-1995). Career His first job was as a journalist in Wiltshire in 1881. In 1884 he took over the family printing business and began his 59-year editorship of the ''Essex County Standard''. From 1892 to 1929 he edited the newspaper jointly with his brother, Charles Edwin Benham. A "conscientious as well as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essex County Standard
The ''Essex County Standard'' is a weekly newspaper, published in Colchester, Essex. In August 2019 Newsquest announced it would no longer subscribe to the Audit Bureau of Circulation, the body that provides independently verified circulation figures to advertisers. It is currently owned by the Newsquest Media Group, part of the American Gannett Company. History The Essex County Standard was founded in January 1831, then called the ''Essex Standard''. It was to be a weekly Tory paper and "a Standard around which the loyal, the religious, and the well-affected of our County may rally". Originally printed in Chelmsford, it was acquired by a John Taylor in September 1831, who moved it to new premises in Colchester. The paper was sold to Edward Benham, T. Ralling, and Henry B. Harrison in 1866 though Ralling soon relinquished his interest. The paper was enlarged to eight pages in 1873. Managers of the paper dropped the price to 1 d (half a new pence) in 1891, causing a jump in ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colchester
Colchester ( ) is a city in Essex, in the East of England. It had a population of 122,000 in 2011. The demonym is Colcestrian. Colchester occupies the site of Camulodunum, the first major city in Roman Britain and its first capital. Colchester therefore claims to be Britain's first city. It has been an important military base since the Roman era, with Colchester Garrison currently housing the 16th Air Assault Brigade. Situated on the River Colne, Colchester is northeast of London. The city is connected to London by the A12 road and the Great Eastern Main Line railway. Colchester is less than from London Stansted Airport and from the port of Harwich. Attractions in and around the city include Colchester United Football Club, Colchester Zoo, and several art galleries. Colchester Castle was constructed in the eleventh century on earlier Roman foundations; it now contains a museum. The main campus of the University of Essex is located just outside the city. Local governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
