1854-08-13 | b. Crumpsall, Lancashire | GRO index; censuses; Manchester Crematorium memorial plaques |
1861 | scholar, living with his family and a general servant in Crescent Road, Crumpsall | TNA: RG 9/2972 f67 p42 |
1871 | scholar, living with his family and a servant at 93 Broughton Lane, Broughton, Lancashire | TNA: RG 10/4013 f78 p3 |
1880 Q3 | m. Emma Jane Rolason (1855–1942, b. Handsworth, Staffordshire), in West Bromwich RD | GRO index; censuses; Manchester Crematorium memorial plaques |
Children: | Hilda S. (1884–1970), b. Salford, Lancashire; Norah (1885–1962), Charles G. (1887–1957), Norman (1892–1959), and Harold (1894 – after 1901), all b. Ashton-upon-Mersey, Cheshire | GRO index; censuses |
1881 | buyer, grey goods, living with his wife and a cook, at 222 Lower Broughton Rd, Salford, Lancashire | RG 11/3952 f27 p13 |
1885-06-13 | daughter born at Queen's-road, Ashton-on-Mersey | Alderley & Wilmslow Advertiser, 1885-06-19 |
1890-06-12 | buyer, of Ashton-on-Mersey; subscribing member and director, with 1 share, of the York-Street Property Company Limited; his brother also a director; company set up "to acquire the hereditaments fronting Mosley-street, York-street, and Back George-street, Manchester, and generally to carry on the business of a property company" | Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1890-06-23 |
1891 | buyer of cotton goods, employed, living with his family and a general servant in Queens Road, Ashton-upon-Mersey | RG 12/2823 f129 p43 |
1895-07-10 | co-executor of his brother Alfred's will | National Probate Calendar |
1895-09-03 | rented a house at 37 Manley Road, Withington, Lancashire; gross estimated rental £46, rateable value £39; rate £3 5s.; 4s. 10d. in arrears at end of year, the property now empty | Manchester rate books |
1896 | renting 37 Manley Road, Withington; gross estimated rental £46, rateable value £39; rate £3 5s., paid in full | Manchester rate books |
up to 1897-09-09 | renting 37 Manley Road, Withington; gross estimated rental £46, rateable value £39; rate £3 8s. 3d., paid in full | Manchester rate books |
1898-05-06 | rented a house at 62 Alexandra Road South, Withington; gross estimated rental £80, rateable value £68; rate £5 19s.; 13s. 7d. in arrears at end of year, the property now empty | Manchester rate books |
1899 | the owner of 62 Alexandra Road South, Withington; gross estimated rental £80, rateable value £68; rate £6 10s., paid in full | Manchester rate books |
1900 | the owner of 62 Alexandra Road South, Withington; gross estimated rental £80, rateable value £68; rate £6 16s., paid in full | Manchester rate books |
1900-07-21 | played golf in a Fairhaven Club competition | Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1900-07-24 |
1901 | buyer (grey cloth), worker, living with his family at Norton Lees, Ansdell Rd, Lytham, Lancashire | RG 13/3966 f129 p15 |
1901-05-27 | played golf in a Fairhaven Club tournament, reaching the semi-final | Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1901-06-04 |
1903-01-03 | played golf in a Fairhaven Club competition | Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1903-01-06 |
1904-10-01 | played golf in a Fairhaven Club competition; one of two men presenting the prizes | Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1904-10-04 |
1904-12-31 | of 'Ivyhurst', 62 Alexandra-road-south, Alexandra-park, Manchester; d. Chorlton RD | GRO index; National Probate Calendar |
BENSON—On December 31st, 1904, at Ivyhurst, Whalley Range, Charles Edwin Benson, aged 50 years (34 years with Messrs. Louis Behrens and Sons).—The funeral will take place at the Manchester Crematorium on Tuesday, the 3rd January, 1905, at 12.30 p.m.—Inquires to Messrs. Satterfield, By, and Co., 9, The Crescent, Salford. Telephone No. 2,473. |
Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1905-01-02; Manchester Crematorium memorial plaques | |
1905-01-03 |
Mr. Charles E. Benson, who will be interred to-day, was one of the most respected grey cloth buyers on 'Change. He had been with the eminent firm of Messrs. Louis Behrens and Sons, of this city, for 34 years, though he was only 50 years of age at his death, which took place on the last day of the old year. He will be much missed in business circles. A man of fine facts. |
Manchester Evening News |
1905-03-06 | will proved at London by Emma Jane Benson, widow, and Frederic Benson, estate-agent; effects £3504 12s. | National Probate Calendar |
1857 Q4 | b. Crumpsall, Lancashire | GRO index; censuses |
1861 | living with his family and a general servant in Crescent Road, Crumpsall | TNA: RG 9/2972 f67 p42 |
1871 | scholar, living with his family and a servant at 93 Broughton Lane, Broughton, Lancashire | TNA: RG 10/4013 f78 p3 |
initially worked as an accountant | Wikipedia | |
1881 | estate broker and valuer, living with his family and two domestic servants at The Downs, Butterstyle Lane, Prestwich, Lancashire | RG 11/4032 f72 p32 |
1888 | m. Ellen Maud Foy (1859–1935, b. Bolton, Lancashire) | GRO index; censuses; National Probate Calendar; Manchester Crematorium memorial plaque |
Children: | George (1889–1973), b. Clifton Junction, Lancashire; Doris (1890–1986), b. Buxton, Derbyshire; Thomas Joseph (1892–1937), Margaret Ellen (1895 – after 1901), both b. Prestwich; Eric (1897–1974), and Alfred (1900 – after 1901), both b. Clitheroe, Lancashire | GRO index; censuses |
1889-05-14 | in the Nisi Prius Court: ALLEGED FRAUD IN A PROPERTY TRANSACTION. HERITAGE v. BENSON AND SPURR.—The hearing of this case was concluded on Tuesday.—The plaintiffs, Joseph Heritage and A.C. Heritage, father and son, of New Bank-street, West Gorton, sought to recover from Thomas Duckworth Benson, accountant and estate broker, and Henry Reynolds Spurr, land and mortgage agent, the defendants, the sum of £200, alleged to have been obtained from the plaintiffs by fraud.—Mr. Gully, Q.C., M.P., and Mr. Parry were counsel for the plaintiffs; Mr. Ambrose, Q.C., M.P., and Mr. Sutton represented the defendant Benson; and Mr. Bradbury appeared for the defendant Spurr.—In the early part of 1888 the elder plaintiff bought for £200 the equity of some property at Longsight upon which there was a mortgage of £900. He urged that he was assured the mortgage would not be called in so long as the interest was paid. In June the mortgagees called upon him to pay £50 by Christmas. This he was unable to do, and the mortgagees afterwards took possession of the property, and directed the tenants to pay the rent to them. The Heritages submitted that the defendants had induced the elder plaintiff to invest his savings in the property by statements they knew to be unfounded. Mr. Spurr, in his defence, said the only representation made was that, so far as the defendants knew, the mortgage would be allowed to remain if the interest was regularly paid. Before the completion of the purchase the plaintiffs were told that the mortgage would have to be reduced by instalments, the first to be paid at Christmas of the same year.—Mr. Benson denied that he ever represented that the £900 could remain till the plaintiffs could reduce it. Additional witnesses for the defendants were called.—The Judge, in summing up the evidence to the jury, said the question was one of great importance to the chief plaintiff, inasmuch as the verdict decided the fate of the savings of his long and laborious life. But the verdict was of even greater importance to the defendants. If the verdict was for the plaintiffs, it would for many purposes have the operation of a conviction for perjury and forgery, and probably conspiracy against Mr. Benson and Mr. Spurr, and also not identically the same offences but very nearly the same offences, and especially the offence of perjury, with regard to the solicitor, Mr. Parkinson.—The jury found for the defendants, and judgment was entered accordingly. |
Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1889--5-18 |
1890-06-12 | estate agent, of 6 York-street, Manchester; subscribing member and director, with 1 share, of the York-Street Property Company Limited; his brother also a director; company set up "to acquire the hereditaments fronting Mosley-street, York-street, and Back George-street, Manchester, and generally to carry on the business of a property company" | Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1890-06-23 |
1891 | estate agent, employer, living with his family and his brother Alfred, with a cook and a nurse, at The Mount, Prestwich | RG 12/3271 f59 p60 |
first came to prominence as a follower of Swedenborg | Wikipedia | |
1895 | founding treasurer of the New Church Socialist Society, and editor of its journal, Uses | |
1895-07-10 | co-executor of his brother Alfred's will | National Probate Calendar |
1896-07-18 | case heard at Manchester Crown Court: LIGHTFOOT v. BENSON AND SMITH.—In this action the plaintiffs, Henry and Robert Lightfoot, electrical engineers, Cooper-street, Manchester, claimed damages from Thomas Duckworth Benson and Robert Smith, the proprietors of the Trevelyan Buildings, Corporation-street, Manchester, for breach of contract in regard to an electric lighting installation. The defendants counter-claimed for damages on the ground of the unsatisfactory character of the work. [ . . . eventually the parties agreed to a verdict for the plaintiffs for £70 and costs. |
Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1896-07-20 |
1896 | became active in the Independent Labour Party, and was the main financial backer of Keir Hardie's unsuccessful candidacy in the Bradford East by-election | Wikipedia |
1901 | estate agent, employer, living at Macroom, South Drive, St Anne's on the Sea, Lancashire, with his family, a housemaid, a cook, a charwoman, a nurse domestic, and a nurse trained maternity | RG 13/3968 f43 p28 |
1901 | became treasurer of the ILP; within the party, he became known as a leader of the right-wing | Wikipedia |
1901-05-27 | played golf in a Fairhaven Club tournament, reaching the quarter-final | Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1901-06-04 |
1901/1920 | remained treasurer for twenty years, opposing World War I, but suffering long-term ill health | Wikipedia |
1904-07-28 | estate agent, of The Downs, Prestwich, and 8 York Street, Manchester; director of The Labour Leader | Labour Leader, 1904-08-05 |
1905-10-24 | estate agent, of The Downs, Butterstile-lane, Prestwich; nominated as ILP candidate for Harpurhey ward, in the Manchester city elections | Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1905-10-25 |
1906-06-25 | following a women's suffrage demonstration in
Manchester two days previously, at which a number of women had been
arrested:
A meeting of protest against the arrest of the defendants is to be held in Stevenson Square, this evening. The friends of the aggressive movement are also opening a defence fund, of which Mr. T.D. Benson, of The Downs, Prestwich, is to be treasurer. [ . . . ] |
Manchester Evening News, 1906-06-25 |
1906-07-05 | of The Downs, Prestwich; strong letter, drawing attention to the violent example set to women by men seeking the franchise in years past | Daily Mirror |
1909 | when Hardie, Ramsay Macdonald, Philip Snowden and Bruce Glasier resigned in protest at the membership's willingness to oppose sitting Liberal Party candidates, he remained on the executive, working with J. R. Clynes and William Crawford Anderson to win the body to Macdonald's views; he also wrote extensively for the party, including a controversial pamphlet promoting eugenics in a future socialist state | Wikipedia |
1911 | land agent, own account, visitor in the household of Herbert Allen Day, private means, and his family, at Woodhurst, West Wymer, Norwich, Norfolk | RG 14/11324 RD225 ED35 SN305 |
1912-01-26 | a director of The Daily Citizen | Labour Leader, 1912-02-09 |
1914-01-24 | on behalf of the ILP, with Keir Hardie, awarded half of the £10,000 estate of Jane Dennistoun Kippen, at the Edinburgh Court of Sessions | Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1914-01-26; Wicklow People, 1914-03-31 |
1915-08-18 | of Firwood, Disley, Cheshire; has agreed to be a director of the new Independent Labour Party Trust (Limited) | Western Mail |
1916-09-14 | of Firwood, Disley | British Army WWI service record for his son George |
1916-10-14 | estate agent | marriage register of St Martin, Potternewton |
1918-11-07 | treasurer of the Independent Labour party, and
carrying on the business of an estate-agent under the style of Benson
and Sons, York-street, Manchester; unsuccessfully sued the editor of the
Ilkeston Pioneer for libel, in the King's Bench, the defendant
having claimed that the ILP was being funded by German money Mr. Benson, in his evidence, said he had been treasurer of the party for seventeen years. He had three sons serving in the army, two holding commissions as lieutenants. They offered themselves before compulsory service came into force. The balance-sheets of the party were certified by auditors. He denied that German money came into his hands. He was in favour of peace by negotiation. Cross-examined: The society was not a Bolshevik society. He sustained no loss through the publication of the libel. His eldest son was a conscientious objector, and had been imprisoned for his opinions. |
Manchester Evening News, 1918-11-07; Birmingham Daily Post, 1918-11-08 |
1920 | living at Firwood, Disley, Cheshire, with his wife and their son Eric | electoral registers |
living at Firwood, Disley, Cheshire, with his wife and their son Thomas | ||
1922 | living at Firwood, Disley, Cheshire, with his wife and their son Thomas | |
1925/1926 | living at Firwood, Disley, Cheshire, with his wife and their sons Thomas and Alfred | |
1926-06-23 | of Firwood, Jackson's Edge, Disley; d. Hayfield RD | GRO index; National Probate Calendar; Derbyshire registrars death index |
1926-06-25T11:30 |
On the 23rd of June, at Firwood, Disley, Thomas Duckworth dearly loved husband of Ellen Maud BENSON. Service at Manchester Crematorium on Monday June 28 at 11.30am. No flowers by request. Friends please accept this (the only) intimation. Inquiries to Messrs Kendal Milne and Co. |
Manchester cremation records, citing Manchester Guardian, 1926-05-25; Manchester Crematorium memorial plaque |
1926-09-29 | will proved at Manchester by Ellen Maud Benson, widow, George Benson, estate agent, and Doris Seares (wife of William Arthur Seares); effects £42,932 19s. 3d. | National Probate Calendar |
net personalty was £14,387 | Lancashire Evening Post, 1926-10-15 | |
a "well-to-do pioneer who had been the friend of and benefactor to many of those who were struggling to establish Labour as the political and social force in the latter half of the nineteenth century" | Word doc on Ancestry.com, citing the obituary of his son Sir George Benson in The Times, 1973-08-22 |
1859-03-04 | b. Crumpsall, Lancashire | GRO index; censuses; 1939 England and Wales Register (TNA: RG 101) |
1861 | living with her family and a general servant in Crescent Road, Crumpsall | TNA: RG 9/2972 f67 p42 |
1871 | scholar, living with her family and a servant at 93 Broughton Lane, Broughton, Lancashire | TNA: RG 10/4013 f78 p3 |
1874-06-22 | among students aged under 16 who'd passed the University of Cambridge Local Examination at the Manchester Centre: "Miss Sarah L. Benson, taught by Miss Hunter, Ladies' College, Cheetham" | Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1874-06-23 |
1881 | living with her family and two domestic servants at The Downs, Butterstyle Lane, Prestwich, Lancashire | RG 11/4032 f72 p32 |
1887 Q3 | m. Thomas Henry Briercliffe (1857–1939, cotton spinner, b. Kersley, Lancashire), in Salford RD | GRO index; censuses |
Children: | Rupert (1889–1975), Louis Bernard (1890–1917), and Alfred (1895–1971), all b. Great Lever, Lancashire | GRO index; censuses; National Probate Calendar; Hartley Family Tree |
1891 | living at Carlton Hill, Great Lever, Lancashire, with her family, a general servant, and a nurse maid | RG 12/3126 f106 p2 |
1901 | living at 51 Bradford St, Bolton, Lancashire, with her family, a housemaid, and a general servant | RG 13/3629 f125 p4 |
1911 | living with her husband, her youngest son, and two general servants, in 12 rooms at Wheatfield, Bolton | RG 14/23425 RD461 ED16 SN332 |
1918/1919 | living with her husband at Wheatfield, Radcliffe Road, Bolton | electoral registers |
1920 | living with her husband and her surviving sons, at Wheatfield, Bolton | |
1922/1926 | living with her husband and their son Alfred, at 'Burwains', Macclesfield, Cheshire | |
1939-09-29 | unpaid domestic duties, living at Burwains, Rhyl, Flintshire | 1939 England and Wales Register |
1941-01-22 | of Burvains, Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales; d. St Asaph RD | GRO index; National Probate Calendar |
1941-07-07 | will proved at Bangor by Alfred Briercliffe, public works contractor, and Robert Dyson Briercliffe, cotton manufacturer; effects £7057 6s. 2d. | National Probate Calendar |
net personalty £2965 | Liverpool Daily Post, 1941-07-30 |
1861 Q1 | b. Crumpsall, Lancashire | GRO index; censuses |
1861 | living with his family and a general servant in Crescent Road, Crumpsall | TNA: RG 9/2972 f67 p42 |
1866 Q4 | of Crescent Road, Cheetham Hill, Manchester; d. Manchester RD, of fever | GRO index; Manchester Cemetery records |
1866-10-04 | bur. in 9 Vault, Manchester Cemetery | Manchester Cemetery records |
1863 Q3 | b. Crumpsall, Lancashire | GRO index; censuses |
1871 | scholar, living with her family and a servant at 93 Broughton Lane, Broughton, Lancashire | TNA: RG 10/4013 f78 p3 |
1881 | living with her family and two domestic servants at The Downs, Butterstyle Lane, Prestwich, Lancashire | TNA: RG 11/4032 f72 p32 |
1883 Q1 | d. Salford RD | GRO index |
1865 Q3 | b. Crumpsall, Lancashire | GRO index; censuses |
1871 | living with his family and a servant at 93 Broughton Lane, Broughton, Lancashire | TNA: RG 10/4013 f78 p3 |
1881 | scholar, living with his family and two domestic servants at The Downs, Butterstyle Lane, Prestwich, Lancashire | TNA: RG 11/4032 f72 p32 |
1891 | stone merchant, employer, living with his brother Alfred and family, with a cook and a nurse, at The Mount, Prestwich | RG 12/3271 f59 p60 |
1895-06-10 | builder's and contractor's merchant, of the Mount, Prestwich, near Manchester; d. 8 Church-road, Lytham, Lancashire | GRO index; National Probate Calendar |
1895-07-10 | will proved at Manchester by Charles Edwin Benson, merchant's buyer, and Thomas Duckworth Benson, estate agent; effects £2793 17s. 7d. | National Probate Calendar |
1896-03 | resworn £2816 19s. 6d. |
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