Benham, Sir William Gurney, (1859-1944), Knight Journalist and Author

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Surname:	Benham
Pretitle:	Sir
Forenames:	William Gurney
Gender:	Male
Date:	1859-1944
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P135727 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P37640 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1907-25: literary MSS	Essex Record Office	C480	See Annual Return 1992
2	sketches, designs and related misc papers	Essex Record Office	C573	See Annual Return 1993
3	c1920: draft verse children's history of England	Essex Record Office	D/DJ, C1211	See Annual Return 2002
4	c1914-37: corresp with Oswald Barron	West Sussex Record Office	Add MSS 1320-21	NRA 6779 Barron
5	1808-1926: account of Edward Benham [WGB's father] as a boy, 1822-1828 (1 volume); account by Edward Benham of a 'Visit to the Isle of Wight August 1854' (1 notebook); partial account of a 'Tour in Scotland EB [Edward Benham] and MB 1858' (1 notebook); comic sketches by WGB in pencil and ink, mainly on texts from 'The Merchant of Venice' and 'Romeo and Juliet', 1883 and n.d.; cuttings of poems by WGB etc., with manuscript additions, 1881-1884, 1900 (1 volume), with loose papers, 1885 and n.d.; manuscript and printed poems etc. by WGB, 1899, 1907-1926 (1 volume, disbound); Records of Benham family of Colchester, largely relating to W. Gurney Benham, including manuscript of WGB (ed.), Mrs Jarley's Far-Famed Collection of Waxworks and Statuary, Part IV (1 volume), with a late edition of the work as published, added by the vendor	Essex Record Office	A15129	See Annual Return 2019