| 词条 | William Gurney Benham |
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|name = William Gurney Benham |image = William Gurney Benham.png |alt = |caption = Gurney Benham c. 1916 |birth_date = {{Birth date|1859|2|16|df=y}}[1] |birth_place = Colchester, Essex, England |death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|5|13|1859|2|16|df=y}}[2] |death_place = Colchester, Essex, England[3] |nationality = |other_names = |known_for = |occupation = |children = Hervey Benham }} Sir William Gurney Benham, FSA, FRHS ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|ɛ|n|ə|m}}; 16 February 1859 – 13 May 1944) was a newspaper editor, published author and three times Mayor of Colchester. Early life and familyWilliam 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[4] 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.[3] 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). CareerHis first job was as a journalist in Wiltshire in 1881.[4] In 1884 he took over the family printing business and began his 59-year editorship of the Essex County Standard.[4] From 1892 to 1929 he edited the newspaper jointly with his brother, Charles Edwin Benham. A "conscientious as well as an excellent scholar",[5][6] he is now mainly known through his many publications, many of which are transcriptions of official documents from mediaeval times, particularly those related to his home town of Colchester. He also compiled a number of books of quotations, leading a reviewer in the Journal of Education to comment after his death, "it is remarkable that one man — Sir William Gurney Benham — was able to collect and arrange some fifty thousand quotations and proverbs".[7] For ten years he was also editor of the Essex Review.[8] In addition, Gurney Benham was mayor of Colchester three times, for the years 1892/93, 1908/09 and 1933/34,[9] in 1933 was appointed to the honour of High Steward of Colchester and was knighted in 1935 in recognition of his public service.[3] He remained editor of the Standard until 1943,[6] and was a director of the Colchester Gas Company for over forty years, being chairman until his resignation on grounds of ill health the day before his death.[2] Death and legacyBenham died on 13 May 1944.[2] Gurney Benham Close, a street in Colchester is named after him. Publications
References1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/birthdays-1319248.html|title=Birthdays|publisher=The Independent|date=16 February 1996|accessdate=2 January 2010}} 2. ^1 2 {{Cite journal|title=Obituary|journal=Gas Journal|volume=243/4|url=https://books.google.com/books?cd=5&id=nh_nAAAAMAAJ|year=1944}} 3. ^1 2 {{Cite news|newspaper=The Colcestrian|publisher=Colchester Royal Grammar School|date=July 1944|pages=30–1|title=Obituary list: The Late Sir Gurney Benham}} 4. ^1 2 {{Cite book|title=Merchant Taylors' School register, 1851-1920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_4tBAAAAYAAJ|year=1923|page=70|last1=School|first1=Merchant Taylors'|last2=Merchant Taylors' School (London|first2=England)}} 5. ^{{Cite book | last1 = Partridge | first1 = Eric | title = Dictionary of Catch Phrases | year = 1986 | publisher = Routledge | location = London | isbn = 978-0-415-05916-9 | page = 251 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nm3jbg0JalMC&pg=PT271 }} 6. ^1 {{Cite book|title=Social and cultural institutions|work=A History of the County of Essex (The Borough of Colchester)|volume=9|year=1994|pages=298–303|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22006|editors=Janet Cooper, C R Elrington|author1=A P Baggs |author2=Beryl Board |author3=Philip Crummy |author4=Claude Dove |author5=Shirley Durgan |author6=N R Goose |author7=R B Pugh |author8=Pamela Studd |author9=C C Thornton |accessdate=2009-04-08}} 7. ^{{Cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/?id=lDzWAAAAMAAJ&cd=20|journal=The Journal of Education|title=Benham's Book of Quotations: Proverbs and Household Words [review]|year=1949|volume=81|page=56}} 8. ^{{Cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8bA8AAAAIAAJ|journal=The Antiquaries Journal|volume=24/5|year=1944|title=The Antiquaries Journal}} 9. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.colchester.gov.uk/Info_page_two_pic_2_det.asp?art_id=1783&sec_id=2499|title=Colchester Borough Mayors since 1836|date=9 July 2009|accessdate=2 January 2010|publisher=Colchester Borough Council}} 10. ^{{Cite book | last1 = Partridge | first1 = Eric | title = Dictionary of Catch Phrases | year = 1986 | publisher = Routledge | location = London | isbn = 978-0-415-05916-9 | page = Abbreviations |nopp=yes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nm3jbg0JalMC }} External links
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