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Sir Benjamin Hingley, 1st Baronet {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DL}} (11 September 1830 – 13 May 1905) was an English ironmaster and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1895. LifeHingley was born at Cradley, Worcestershire, the son of Noah Hingley and his first wife Sarah Willett. He was educated at Halesowen Grammar School.[1] He entered the family firms of Noah Hingley and Sons chain and anchor manufacturers and Hingley and Smith colliery proprietors.[2] Hingley and Company had Iron Works at Netherton and Old Hill which were supplied with coal from two small mines at Dudley Wood and Primrose Hill.[3] In 1865 on the death of his brother Hezekiah, he became head of the firms. He was Chairman of the South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire Ironmasters Association. He was also president of the Midland Iron and Steel Wages Board[4] and of the South Staffordshire Coal Trade Wages Board. Hingley was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Worcestershire at the 1885 general election.[5] He became a Liberal Unionist in 1886 but reverted to the Liberals in 1892,[5] and held the seat until the 1895 general election[5] when he retired through ill-health.{{sfn|Sidney|1912}} He was also an alderman of Dudley and Mayor of Dudley from 1887 to 1889 and county alderman for Staffordshire from 1889 to 1892. He was created a baronet on 8 August 1893. Hingley was also a J.P. for Dudley, Worcestershire and Staffordshire.[2] He became High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1900,[6] and a deputy lieutenant of the county that summer.[7] In 1903, he was elected president of the Mining Association of Great Britain. Hingley lived at Hatherton Lodge, Cradley, where he died on 13 May 1905, and was buried at Halesowen Church Yard. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew, George Benjamin Hingley. {{sfn|Sidney|1912}} Hingley laid the foundation stone for the Methodist Church in Birmingham Street, which has since been converted to a bar and restaurant called "Benjamin's".[3] Notes1. ^{{cite news |title=QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000350/18930610/017/0003 |accessdate=19 November 2018 |work=Worcestershire Chronicle |via=The British Newspaper Archive |date=10 June 1893|page=3|subscription=yes}} 2. ^1 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5ShF62DNCAQC&pg=PA74 William Retlaw Williams The Parliamentary History of the County of Worcester] 3. ^1 Halsowen Roots - Benjamin Hingley 4. ^{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/03/04/101939974.pdf|work= New York Times|date= March 4, 1902|title=British Firms Handicapped}} 5. ^1 2 {{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 |origyear=1974 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-27-2 |page=423}} 6. ^{{London Gazette|issue=27171 |page=1520| date=6 March 1900}} 7. ^{{London Gazette | issue=27198 |page=3501 | date=1 June 1900}} References
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| title = Member of Parliament for North Worcestershire | years = 1885 – 1895 }}{{s-aft | after= John William Wilson }}{{s-reg|uk-bt}}{{succession box | title=Baronet of Hatherton Lodge | before=New creation| after=George Benjamin Hingley | years=1893–1905}}{{s-hon}}{{succession box | title = High Sheriff of Worcestershire | before = Charles Wilson Dyson Perrins | after = Sir Henry Foley Lambert | years = 1900 – 1901 }}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Hingley, Sir Benjamin, 1st Baronet}} 14 : 1830 births|1905 deaths|Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies|UK MPs 1885–86|UK MPs 1886–92|UK MPs 1892–95|Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom|People from Cradley, West Midlands|High Sheriffs of Worcestershire|Members of Staffordshire County Council|Politics of Dudley|Mayors of places in the West Midlands (county)|Deputy Lieutenants of Worcestershire|Liberal Unionist Party MPs for English constituencies |
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