![]() ![]() While there he began to question the status of the Church of England and to consider the claims of the Catholic Church. ![]() In 1895, Benson was ordained a priest in the Church of England by his father, who was the then Archbishop of Canterbury.Īfter his father died suddenly in 1896, Benson was sent on a trip to the Middle East to recover his own health. īenson was educated at Eton College and then studied classics and theology at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1890 to 1893. He continued his writing career at the same time as he progressed through the hierarchy to become a Chamberlain to Pope Pius X in 1911, and gain the title of Monsignor before his death a few years later.īenson was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, the Archbishop of Canterbury and his wife, Mary Benson was the younger brother of E. ![]() His output encompassed historical, horror and science fiction, contemporary fiction, children's stories, plays, apologetics, devotional works and articles. He was also a prolific writer of fiction, writing the notable dystopian novel Lord of the World, as well as Come Rack! Come Rope!. ![]() First an Anglican priest, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1903 and ordained therein the next year. Robert Hugh Benson AFSC KC*SG KGCHS (18 November 1871 – 19 October 1914) was an English Catholic priest and writer. ![]()
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