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See also:BENSON, See also:FRANCIS See also:ROBERT (1858— ) , See also:English actor, son of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Benson of Alresford,.Hants, was See also:born at Tunbridge See also:Wells on the 4th of See also:November 1858. He came of a talented See also:family, his See also:elder See also:brother, W. A. S. Benson (b. 1854), becoming well known in the See also:world of See also:art as one of the pioneers in the revival of English See also:industrial craftsmanship, especially in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of the metallic arts; and his younger brother, See also:Godfrey Benson, being an active Liberal politician. He was educated at See also:Winchester and New See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and at the university was distinguished both as an See also:athlete (winning the Inter-university three See also:miles) and as an See also:amateur actor. In the latter respect he was notable for producing at Oxford the first performance of a See also:Greek See also:play, the See also:Agamemnon, in which many Oxford men who afterwards became famous in other See also:fields took See also:part. Mr Benson, on leaving Oxford, took to the professional See also:stage, and made his first See also:appearance at the See also:Lyceum, under See also:Irving, in Romeo and Juliet, as See also:Paris, in 1882. In the next See also:year he went into manager. See also:ship with a See also:company of his own, taken over from See also:Walter See also:Bentley, and from this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he became gradually more and more prominent, both as an actor of leading parts himself and as the organizer of practically the only See also:modern " stock company " touring through the provinces. In 1886 he married Gertrude See also:Constance See also:Cockburn (Featherstonhaugh), who acted in his company and continued to play leading parts with him. Mr Benson's See also:chief successes were gained out of See also:London for some years, but in 1890 he had a See also:season in London at the Globe and in 1900 at the Lyceum, and in later years he was seen with his repertoire at the Coronet. His company included from time to time many actors and actresses who, having been trained under him, became prominent on their own See also:account, and both by his organization of this See also:regular company and by his See also:foundation of a dramatic school of acting in Igor, Mr Benson exercised a most important See also:influence on the contemporary stage. From the first he devoted himself largely to the See also:production of See also:Shakespeare's plays, reviving many which had not been acted for generations, and his services to the cause of Shakespeare can hardly be overestimated. From 1888 onwards he managed the See also:Stratford-on-See also:Avon Shakespearian Festival. His romantic and intellectual See also:powers as an actor, combined with his athletic and picturesque bearing and See also:fine elocution, were conspicuously shown in his own impersonations, most remarkable among which were his See also:Hamlet (in 1900 he produced this play without cuts in London), his See also:Coriolanus, his See also:Richard II., his See also:Lear and his Petruchio.
End of Article: BENSON, FRANCIS ROBERT (1858— )
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