Richard Fellowes Benyon
Richard Fellowes Benyon (17 November 1811 – 26 July 1897), born Richard Fellowes, was a British Conservative politician and civil servant.
Richard was born at Haveringland Hall in Norfolk, the third son of William Henry Fellowes of Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire and his wife, Emma, sister of Richard Benyon De Beauvoir of Englefield House in Berkshire.
He inherited this latter property (16,000 acres, worth 20,004 guineas rental per annum)[1] and its associated estates upon his uncle's death in 1854 and changed his name to Benyon.
Educated at Charterhouse and St. John's College, Cambridge, he was a member of Boodle's, Carlton and Conservative London clubs.[2]
In 1857 he was appointed High Sheriff of Berkshire, and was the Chairman of the County's Quarter Sessions in 1864. In 1860 he was elected the Member of Parliament for Berkshire, a position he held until his resignation in 1876. He was a patron of the anti-Mendicity Society, the National Society for School Furniture and the Society for the Augmentation of Small Livings.
By his wife Elizabeth Mary Clutterbuck he had three daughters, and upon his death in 1897, his estates were inherited by his nephew, James Herbert Benyon. Meanwhile, his daughter Marion Emma had married Sir John Shelley, 9th Bt., and as a result of her cousins' own lack of sons with children, her younger son inherited Englefield in 1959. Thereby Richard Fellowes Benyon's great-grandson and eventual heir became Sir William Richard Benyon.
References
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Richard Fellowes Benyon
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Philip Pleydell-Bouverie John Walter Leicester Viney Vernon |
Member of Parliament for Berkshire 1860–1876 With: Philip Pleydell-Bouverie 1860–1865 John Walter 1860–1865, 1868–1876 Robert Loyd-Lindsay 1860–1876 Sir Charles Russell 1865–1868 |
Succeeded by Robert Loyd-Lindsay John Walter Philip Wroughton |
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| Preceded by George Barker |
High Sheriff of Berkshire 1857 |
Succeeded by Henry Richard Eyre |