1-273-541 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Edward White Benson, Lord Bishop of Truro, 1880. Benson was headmaster of Welligton School from 1858 until 1872, when he was appointed a Canon Residentiary and Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral. In 1876 he was appointed to the new Bishopric of Truro, and then in 1883 became Archbishop of Canterbury. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).