Robert Hugh Benson
Novelist, Author
1871 – 1914
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Who was Robert Hugh Benson?
Robert Hugh Benson AFSC KC*SG KGCHS was an English Anglican priest who joined the Roman Catholic Church in which he was ordained priest in 1904. He was lauded in his own day as one of the leading figures in English literature, having written the notable book Lord of the World.
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- Born
- Nov 18, 1871
Wellington College, Berkshire - Also known as
- Hugh Benson
- Parents
- Siblings
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Eton College
- Died
- Oct 19, 1914
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on July 23, 2013
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