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Robert Hugh Benson 1871-1914, English author and clergyman; 4th son of Archbishop Benson . He was converted to Roman Catholicism in 1903 and ordained the next year. In 1911, as a monsignor, he became privy chamberlain to Pope Pius X. His works include the novels By What Authority? (1904) and Richard Raynal (1906), and Paradoxes of Catholicism (1913).

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Benson, R. H. ( Robert Hugh Benson) (1871–1914), younger brother of A. C. and E. F. Benson (above), and like them a prolific writer. Much of his work consists of Catholic apologia: he wrote sensational apocalyptic novels (e.g. The Lord of the World, 1907), melodramatic historical novels (e.g. Come Rack! Come Rope!, 1912), and modern novels usually involving an impossible moral conundrum (e.g. The Average Man, 1913), and also published sermons, poems, etc.

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