Introduction
Born: July 6, 1824, Bolton House, Russell Square, Bloomsbury, England.
Died: January 14, 1915, Mission House, Cowley St. John, Oxford, England.
Buried: St. Mary and St. John’s Church, Cowley, Oxford, England.
Born: July 6, 1824, Bolton House, Russell Square, Bloomsbury, England.
Died: January 14, 1915, Mission House, Cowley St. John, Oxford, England.
Buried: St. Mary and St. John’s Church, Cowley, Oxford, England.
Richard was the son of Thomas Starling Benson and Elizabeth Meux.
He studied at Christ Church, Oxford, with a double second in Greats and Mathematics (BA in honors 1847, MA 1849).
On taking Holy Orders, he became curate of St. Mark’s, Surbiton (1849), and vicar of Cowley, Oxford, 1850.
In 1866, he founded and was the first superior of the Society of St. John the Evangelist.