See also:FRANCIS See also:ROBERT See also:BENSON (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 See also:Benson of Alresford,.Hants, was See also:born at Tunbridge See also:Wells on the 4th of See also:November 1858
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He came of a talented See also:family, his See also:elder See also:brother, W
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Benson (b
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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From 1888 onwards he managed the See also:Stratford-on-See also:Avon Shakespearian Festival
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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
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