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Richard Benson (charity Organiser)
Richard Benson may refer to: * Richard Benson (MP), English Member of Parliament for Ludlow, 1604 * Richard Meux Benson (1824–1915), priest in the Church of England * Richard Benson (photographer) (1943–2017), American photographer * Richard Benson (musician) (1955–2022), English-Italian musician * Rich Benson Richard John Benson (born 1967) is an American former professional tennis player. Benson, who grew up in Ogden, Utah Ogden is a city in and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, United States, approximately east of the Great Salt Lake and ... (born 1967), American tennis player * Avenger (pulp-magazine character) or Richard Henry Benson See also * Dick Benson (other) {{hndis, Benson, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Benson (MP)
Richard Benson may refer to: * Richard Benson (MP), English Member of Parliament for Ludlow, 1604 * Richard Meux Benson (1824–1915), priest in the Church of England * Richard Benson (photographer) (1943–2017), American photographer * Richard Benson (musician) (1955–2022), English-Italian musician * Rich Benson (born 1967), American tennis player * Avenger (pulp-magazine character) The Avenger is a fictional character whose original adventures appeared between September 1939 and September 1942 in the pulp magazine ''The Avenger'', published by Street & Smith, which ran 24 issues.Hutchison, Don The Great Pulp Heroes – 3: Th ... or Richard Henry Benson See also * Dick Benson (other) {{hndis, Benson, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludlow (UK Parliament Constituency)
Ludlow is a constituency in Shropshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Philip Dunne, a member of the Conservative Party. History From its 1473 creation until 1885, Ludlow was a parliamentary borough. It was represented by two burgesses until 1868, when it was reduced to one member. The seat saw a big reduction in voters between 1727 when 710 people voted to the next contested election in 1812 when the electorate was below 100. The 1832 Reform Act raised the electorate to 300-400. The parliamentary borough was abolished in 1885, and the name transferred to the new county "division" (with lower electoral candidates' expenses and a different returning officer) whose boundaries were expanded greatly to become similar to (and a replacement to) the Southern division of Shropshire. The seat was long considered safe for the Conservatives with the party winning by large majorities from the 1920s until 1997 when the majority was reduced to u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Meux Benson
Richard Meux Benson (6 July 1824 – 14 January 1915) was a priest in the Church of England and founder of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, the first religious order of monks in the Anglican Communion since the Reformation. He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Anglican Church of Canada on 15 January and on the Episcopal Church calendar on January 14 with Charles Gore. Early life Benson was born into a wealthy London family in 1824, the son of merchant Thomas Starling Benson and his second wife, Elizabeth Meux, daughter of Richard Meux. Henry Roxby Benson was his elder brother.''London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1917'' Benson was taught at home by a private tutor and entered Christ Church, Oxford. After his degree and ordination and a curacy at Surbiton, in 1850 he became vicar of Cowley, Oxford. He was considered High Church. In 1858, Benson conducted a retreat for priests using material taken in part from the Spiritual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Benson (photographer)
Richard Mead Atwater Benson (November 8, 1943 – June 22, 2017) was an American photographer, printer, and educator who used photographic processing techniques of the past and present. "He is perhaps best known for his innovations in photographic offset printing techniques and, later, ink-jet printing." Benson was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and a MacArthur Fellowship. His work is held in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art. Biography Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Benson attended the St. George's School, then spent three months at Brown University before dropping out and joining the United States Navy. He learned about lenses and optics in his time in the navy. He then worked as a printer, primarily in printing photographs, first in Connecticut and then in Newport. Benson began teaching photography at Yale University in 1979 and was dean of the Yale Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Benson (musician)
Richard Philip Henry John Benson (10 March 1955 – 10 May 2022) was a British Italian guitarist, singer-songwriter and television personality. Life Benson was born in Woking, England, to a Belgian mother and a British father, both of which had Italian origins. His paternal great grandfather was Samuel Herbert Benson, the founder of the first advertising company in the UK. His grandfather, one of Sir Samuel Herbet Benson's sons, married an Italian model. Richard moved to Italy and was an active musician since his early teens. In 2000, he suffered a serious leg injury when he fell off a bridge. He claimed that the accident was the result of an assault, but there are suspicions that Benson actually attempted suicide, since he was diagnosed with arthritis shortly before, which is suggested to have greatly impacted his guitar playing and skills. Benson had to undergo prolonged rehabilitation to be able to walk again. In November 2016 Benson and his wife Ester Esposito appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rich Benson
Richard John Benson (born 1967) is an American former professional tennis player. Benson, who grew up in Ogden, Utah Ogden is a city in and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, United States, approximately east of the Great Salt Lake and north of Salt Lake City. The population was 87,321 in 2020, according to the US Census Bureau, making it Utah's eighth ..., was a collegiate tennis player at the University of Kentucky in the late 1980s, earning All-American honors for doubles on three occasions. He was a semi-finalist in the 1987 NCAA doubles championships, with Greg Van Emburgh as his partner. During the 1990s he competed on the professional tour, specialising in doubles at ATP Tour level. In 1993 he reached the doubles semi-finals of an ATP Tour tournament in Kuala Lumpur, partnering with local player Adam Malik (tennis), Adam Malik, with whom he won the Volkswagen Challenger, Wolfsburg Challenger title the following year. Challenger titles Doubles: (1) Personal li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avenger (pulp-magazine Character)
The Avenger is a fictional character whose original adventures appeared between September 1939 and September 1942 in the pulp magazine ''The Avenger'', published by Street & Smith, which ran 24 issues.Hutchison, Don The Great Pulp Heroes – 3: The Avenger in Peter Harris (ed.) The New Captain George's Whizzbang #12 (1971) Five additional short stories were published in ''Clues Detective'' magazine (1942–1943), and a sixth novelette in ''The Shadow'' magazine in 1943. Decades later, newly written pastiches were commissioned and published by Warner Brothers' Paperback Library from 1973 to 1974. The Avenger was a pulp hero who combined elements of Doc Savage and The Shadow. The authorship of the pulp series was credited by Street & Smith to Kenneth Robeson, the same byline that appeared on the Doc Savage stories. Most of the original Avenger stories were actually written by Paul Ernst. The "Kenneth Robeson" name was a house pseudonym used by a number of different Street & Smit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |