Sir Henry Arthur Benyon, 1st Baronet JP

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 (1884 – 1959) was the immediate post-War

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 Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire

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Born Henry Arthur Fellowes, the son of James Herbert Fellowes

James Herbert Benyon

James Herbert Benyon MA was an early 20th century Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire.Born James Herbert Fellowes, he was the son of James Fellowes of Kingston Maurward House near Dorchester, Dorset who was the youngest son of William Henry Fellowes of Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire by his wife, Emma...

 of Kingston Maurward House near Dorchester, Dorset. His father changed his name to Benyon after inheriting the Englefield House estate in Berkshire

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 from his uncle

Richard Fellowes Benyon

Richard Fellowes Benyon , born Richard Fellowes, was a British Conservative politician and civil servant....

. He was educated at Eton College

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 and Trinity Hall, Cambridge

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Benyon lived at Ufton Court

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 during his father's lifetime. He was a captain in the Berkshire Yeomanry

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 during World War I

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, serving in Egypt

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. At home, he served as Deputy Lieutenant

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 of Berkshire from 8 December 1884 to 15 June 1959, High Sheriff

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 in 1925 and was the lord Lieutenant

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 from 28 March 1945 until his death in 1959. He was also a Berkshire County Councillor. He had inherited his father's estates - as well as the patronage of St Mark's Church, Englefield and St Peter's Church, De Beauvoir Town

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, Hackney

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 - in 1935 and was raised to the baronet

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cy on 8 July 1958. He married Violet Eveline, daughter of Sir Cuthbert Edgar Peek, but left no heirs-male and Englefield passed to his second cousin, William Richard Shelley

William Benyon

Sir William Richard Benyon is a retired British Conservative Party politician, Berkshire landowner and former High Sheriff...

. He enjoyed hunting and shooting.