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- William_Gurney_Benham abstract "Sir William Gurney Benham Kt, JP, FSA, FRHistS, (pronounced Ben'am; 16 February 1859 in Colchester, England - 13 May 1944, also in Colchester) was a newspaper editor, published author and three times Mayor of Colchester.Gurney Benham was born on 16 February 1859 and educated at the Merchant Taylors' School until 1873, and thereafter at Colchester Royal Grammar School, a school about which he has written, of whose old boys' society he was later President and which still has a building named after him. Gurney Benham was the son of Edward Benham, a printer, and father to Hervey Benham, himself an author. His first job was as a journalist in Wiltshire from 1881 to 1884.He took over the family printing business and edited the Essex County Standard from 1884. A "conscientious as well as an excellent scholar", he is now mainly known through his many publications, many of which are transcriptions of official documents from mediaeval times, particularly those related to his home town of Colchester. He also compiled a number of books of quotations, leading a reviewer in the Journal of Education to comment after his death, "it is remarkable that one man — Sir William Gurney Benham — was able to collect and arrange some fifty thousand quotations and proverbs". For ten years he was also editor of the Essex Review.In addition, Gurney Benham was mayor of Colchester three times, for the years 1892/93, 1908/09 and 1933/34, in 1933 was appointed to the honour of High Steward of Colchester and was knighted in 1935 in recognition of his public service. He remained editor of the Standard until 1943, and was a director of the Colchester Gas Company for over forty years, being chairman until his resignation on grounds of ill health the day before his death on 13 May 1944. Gurney Benham Close, a street in Colchester is named after him.".
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