Robert BENSON

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Robert

Benson

1675 - 1731

Robert

Benson

, 1702-05 MP for Thetford 1705-13 MP for York 1710 Commissioner of the Treasury 1711-13 Chancellor of the Exchequer 1711-14 a Privy Councillor, and again from 1730 1711-15 a Director of the South Seas Company 1713-14 Ambassador to the Court of Madrid for Queen Anne 21 July 1713 created 1st Lord Bingley 1730-31 Treasurer of the Household for George II. Of Bramham.

Born: Wrenthorpe nr Wakefield, Yorkshire, , England 1675	Baptised:
Died: 9th Apr 1731	Buried: St Paul's Chapel, Wesminster Abb, London, , , England 14th Apr 1731
Family: Benson

Titles:

Ancestors

1. Robert Benson ( Finch ) 1675 - 1731	2. Robert Benson ( Jenkins ) ante 1660 - 1676

	3. Dorothy Jenkins ( Benson )	6. Tobias Jenkins

Siblings

Spouses

1. St Giles in the Fields, London, , , England 21st Dec 1703
Elizabeth
Finch
(
Benson
) post 1678 - 1757

Descendants

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a. Elizabeth Finch ( Benson ) post 1678 - 1757 1. Harriet Benson ( Fox Lane ) 1705 - 1771 1a. George Fox Lane formerly Fox ( Benson ) 1697 - 1773 1.1. Robert Fox Lane ( Henley , Bourchier ) 1732 - 1768 2. M/? Benson + ante 1731
b. ? 3. Mary Benson formerly Johnson ( Goodricke ) + 1792 3a. Sir John Goodricke ( Benson ) 1708 - 1789 3.1. Mary Goodricke 1732 - 1733 3.2. Henrietta/Harriet Goodricke 1739 - 1746 3.3. Henry Goodricke ( Sesster ) 1741 - 1789 ...

Sources

Family Archivists: see
Benson

Timeline

1675	Born (birth) Wrenthorpe nr Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
21st Dec 1703	Married Elizabeth Finch ( Benson ) post 1678 - 1757 (marriage) London, England
1707	Robert Benson ( Finch ) 1675 - 1731 inherited the title Lord Mayor (York)
21st Jul 1713	Robert Benson ( Finch ) 1675 - 1731 inherited the title Bingley [B] (1713-31)
9th Apr 1731	Died (death)
14th Apr 1731	Buried (burial) London, England

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