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# Men-at-the-Bar/Rigg, Herbert Addington

​Rigg, Herbert Addington, M.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1871, matric. London Univ. 1863, a student of the Inner Temple 22 Jan., 1866 (then aged 20), called to the bar 6 June, 1871 (2nd son of Jonathan Rigg, of Wrotham Hill Park, Kent); born 7 March, 1845; married 21 July, 1880, Dora, youngest dau. of William Chappell, Esq., F.S.A., of Oatlands Park, Surrey.
    Wykeham Lodge, Walton-on-Thames; 9, King's Bench Walk, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Ridley, Thomas Glynn

​Ridley, Thomas Glynn, B.A., Exeter Coll., Oxon, 1883, a student of Lincoln's Inn 15 Nov., 1880 (then aged 22), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1884 (2nd son of Thomas Ridley, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and of the Inner Temple, bar.-at-law); born , 1858.
    30, Grey Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Rigg, James McMullen

​Rigg, James McMullen, B.A. (sometime scholar) St. John's Coll., Oxon, editor of Bankruptcy Act 1883, a student of Lincoln's Inn 28 Jan., 1879 (then aged 23), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1881 (only son of Rev. James Harrison Rigg, D.D., principal of Wesleyan Coll., Westminster); born 28 Sept., 1855.
    7 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Ridgway, Francis Joseph

​Ridgway, Francis Joseph, B.A. Brasenose Coll., Oxon, a student of the Inner Temple 8 April, 1880 (then aged 22), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1883 (only son of Isaac Ridgway, of Kytes, co. Hereford, merchant); born , 1858.
    1, Temple Gardens, or Goldsmith Buildings, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Ridley, John Matthew

​Ridley, John Matthew, M.A., Jesus Coll., Camb., 1846, J.P. Northumberland, a student of Lincoln's Inn 1 Nov., 1842 (then aged 22), called to the bar 24 Nov., 1845 (2nd son of late John Ridley, Esq., of Park End, Northumberland); born 2 May, 1820; married 4 June, 1844, Anna Maria, youngest dau. of Henry Hilton, Esq., of Sole Street House, Kent, and has issue.
    Walwick House, Humshaugh, Northumberland; Oxford and Cambridge Club, S.W.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Ridley, Thomas

​Ridley, Thomas, a member of the North-eastern circuit, changed his name to Ridley, a student of Gray's Inn 24 Jan., 1854, called to the bar 17 Nov., 1856 (only son of Cuthbert Pigg, late of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, builder, dec.); born 2 July, 1813; married 19 Sept., 1853, Louisa, widow of James Railston, Esq., of Morpeth, and has issue.
    30, Grey Street, and 17, Framlington Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Riley, Charles

​Riley, Charles, M.A., St. John's Coll., Camb., 1850, a student of the Inner Temple 13 Nov., 1843 (then aged 21), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1849 (youngest son of Edward Riley, late of Sydney, New South Wales, merchant); born , 1822.
    55, Queensborough Terrace, W.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Ridley, Edward

​Ridley, Edward, M.A. Corpus Christi Coll., Oxon, fellow All Souls', M.P. South Northumberland 1878-80, a student of the Inner Temple 27 Jan., 1865 (then aged 21), called to the bar 6 June, 1868 (2nd son of Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart.); born Aug., 1843; married 29 July, 1882, Alice, 2nd dau. of late W. Bromley Davenport, Esq., M.P., and has issue (see Foster's Baronetage).
    34, Chapel Street, Belgrave Square, S.W.; 3, King's Bench Walk, Temple, E.C.; Carlton and Oxford & Cambridge Clubs.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Ridley, George

​Ridley, George, F.R.G.S., M.P. Newcastle-on-Tyne 1856-60, a copyhold enclosure and tithe commissioner 1860-80, a student of the Middle Temple 20 Jan., 1840, called to the bar 9 June, 1843 (youngest son of Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart, of Blagdon, Northumberland); born , 1818 (see Foster's Baronetage).
    2, Charles Street, Berkeley Square W.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Benedetti, Vincent

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​BENEDETTI, Vincent, a French diplomatist, of Italian extraction, born in Corsica, about 1815, was educated for the consular and diplomatic service. After having been appointed Consul at Palermo in 1848, he became First Secretary to the Embassy at Constantinople, until May, 1859, when he was appointed to replace M. Bourée as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister at Teheran. M. Benedetti, who declined to accept the office, was some months afterwards named Director of Political Affairs to the Foreign Minister; a position associated with the successful career of MM. de Rayneval and d'Hauterive, and with the names of Desages, Armand, Lefebre, and Thouvenel. It fell to the lot of M. Benedetti to act as secretary and editor of the protocols in the Congress of Paris in 1856, and he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in June, 1845, Officer in 1853, Commander in 1856, Grand Officer in June, 1860, and Grand Cross in 1866. Having been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary of France at Turin in 1861, on the recognition of the Italian kingdom by the French Government, he resigned when M. Thouvenel retired from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was appointed Ambassador at Berlin, Nov. 27, 1864. M. Benedetti obtained great notoriety in connection with the remarkable draft of a secret treaty between France and Prussia, which was published in the Times on the 25th of July, 1870, at the very commencement of the war between those two Powers. The document stated that the Emperor Napoleon III. would allow and recognise the Prussian acquisitions consequent upon the war against Austria; that the King of Prussia would promise to assist France in acquiring Luxemburg; that the Emperor would not oppose a Federal re-union of North and South Germany; that if the Emperor should occupy or conquer Belgium, the King should afford armed assistance to France against any other Power that might declare war against her in such case; and that the two Powers should conclude an offensive and defensive alliance. The publication of this extraordinary document caused great consternation and excitement throughout Europe. Its authenticity was not denied, but France declared that although M. Benedetti had written the document, he had done so at the dictation of Count Bismarck; whereas the latter statesman declared that through one channel or another France had incessantly demanded some compensation for not interfering with Prussia in her projects. Both statesmen agreed in saying that their respective sovereigns declined to sanction the treaty. On the outbreak of the war, M. Benedetti was of course recalled from Berlin; and since the fall of the Empire he has disappeared from public notice. In Oct., 1871, however, he published a pamphlet, in which he threw upon Count Bismarck the whole responsibility of the draft treaty. In 1872 he was elected a member of the Conseil General of Corsica, and since then he has been an advocate at the bar of Ajaccio.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Benham, William

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​BENHAM, The Rev. William, B.D., was born at West Meon, Hants, Jan. 15, 1831, his father being the village postmaster, as his grandfather had been before him. He was educated at the village National school, and was favourably noticed by the rector, Archdeacon Bayley, who took him to his house as his little secretary, he being blind. He taught the youth Latin and Greek, and after his death in 1844, Mr. Benham was sent to St. Mark's College, Chelsea, to be trained for a schoolmaster. After working in that capacity for a few years, Archdeacon Bayley's family furnished him with the means of going through the Theological Department of King's College, London. He went out with a first-class, and was ordained by the late Archbishop of Canterbury, then Bishop of London, as Divinity Tutor to his old college at Chelsea. He remained there from 1857 to 1864, when he became Editorial Secretary to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and curate of St. Lawrence Jewry, under the present Dean of Manchester. In 1867 he was favourably noticed as a preacher by some members of Archbishop Longley's family, unknown to himself, and this led to the Archbishop offering him the vicarage of his own parish of Addington. He acted as the Primate's private secretary during the first Lambeth Conference, and passed the Resolutions through the press, and also his last Charge. Archbishop Tait also made him one of the Six Preachers of Canterbury in 1872, and gave him the vicarage of Margate in the same year. His chief work there was the carrying out the restoration of the parish church. In 1880 he was appointed to the vicarage of Marden, and in 1882 to the rectory of St. Edmund the King, Lombard Street, in the City of London. Mr. Benham has published "The Gospel of St. Matthew, with notes and a commentary," 1862; " English Ballads, with introduction and notes," 1863; "The Epistles for the Christian Year, with notes and commentary," 1864; "Readings on the Life of Our Lord and His Apostles," 1880; "The Church of the Patriarchs," 1867; the "Globe" edition of Cowper's works, 1870; Commentary on the Acts in the "Commentary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge," 1871; "A Companion to the Lectionary," 1872; a new translation of Thomas à Kempis's "Imitatio Christi," 1874; "Memoirs of Catherine and Craufurd Tait," 1879; and "How to Teach the Old Testament," 1881. He has also contributed-articles to "The Bible Educator," Macmillan's Magazine, and other periodicals.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Benjamin, Judah Philip

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​BENJAMIN, Judah Philip, Q.C., was born in St. Croix, a Danish West India Island, in 1811, of English parents of the Jewish faith, who emigrated in 1816 to Wilmington, North Carolina, where his father became naturalised as an American citizen, the son remaining a native born subject of England. He entered Yale College in 1825, but left without graduating in 1828, when he went to New Orleans, and was admitted to the bar in 1832. He entered prominently into politics, originally as a Whig, but on the merger of that party into the "Know Nothing," or Native American party, he attached ​himself to the Democratic party. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1852, and re-elected in 1858. On Dec. 31, 1860, in a speech to the Senate, he avowed his adhesion to the State of Louisiana, which had seceded from the Union, and he at once withdrew from the Senate and returned to New Orleans. He was then called by Jefferson Davis, who had just been elected President of the Southern Confederacy, to join the Cabinet as Attorney-General. To the duties of this office were added those of Acting-Secretary of War during a temporary vacancy in that office. On the appointment of a permanent Secretary of War, the Cabinet was reorganised, and Mr. Benjamin was made Secretary of State, retaining that office and the confidence of the President until the overthrow of the Confederacy. He then escaped the pursuit of the Northern troops, and succeeded in reaching Nassau, New Providence, whence he sailed for England, where he arrived in Sept. 1865. Mr. Benjamin had been in reality the soul of the rebellion. His entire property was confiscated, and it is an interesting fact that his law library was bought in by public subscription and presented to him. He came to England in Sept., 1865, and through the personal influence of Lord Cairns was called to the bar in 1866, after keeping his terms for one year only. He at once acquired a large practice at Liverpool, where the principal firms of solicitors have intimate relations with the leading legal houses of New Orleans. He received a silk gown in 1872, and from that date was engaged in almost every case of importance. Among his many arguments, the one most generally known is that which he delivered before the Court for Crown Cases Reserved on behalf of the captain of the Franconia. His last great Nisi Prius case was that of Anson and others against the London and North-Western Railway. After this he entirely refused any briefs except upon Appeal, and was only to be seen in the House of Lords and the Privy Council. In the latter his knowledge of general jurisprudence gave him a great advantage. He was, indeed, in the widest sense of the term, an international lawyer. Mr. Benjamin retired from practice in Feb., 1883. In 1868 he published the 1st, and in 1873 the 2nd edition of a "Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property."
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bennett, James Risdon

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​BENNETT, Sir James Risdon, M.D., F.R.S., Ex-President of the Royal College of Physicians, eldest son of the Rev. James Bennett, D.D. by Sarah, daughter of Mr. John Comley, of Romsey, Hampshire, was born at Romsey, in 1809. He was educated by private tuition, and received his professional education in Paris and Edinburgh, at which latter university he took his degree of M.D. in 1833. After travelling for two years on the Continent, he settled in London, and lectured at the Charing Cross Hospital and Grainger's School in the Borough. He was elected, in 1843, Assistant-Physician to St. Thomas's Hospital, and on becoming full Physician, lectured there for many years on the "Practice of Medicine." He was one of the Founders and Secretary of the first Sydenham Society for the Publication of Medical Works. After filling the offices of Censor, Lumleian and Croonian Lecturer, and Representative of the College of Physicians in the General Medical Council, he was elected President of the College in 1876, and annually re-elected up to 1880. In the same year he had been elected Fellow of the Royal Society. Sir Risdon Bennett is Consulting Physician to the Victoria Park Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, Hon. Physician and Governor of St. Thomas's Hospital, and Fellow of various medical and scientific societies. He has published a translation from the German of Kramer on "Diseases of the Ear;" "An Essay on Acute Hydrocephalus," which gained the Fothergillian Gold Medal; Lumleian lectures on Cancerous and ​other Intra-Thoracic Growths." He has also contributed numerous papers to the Transactions of the Pathological Society and various medical journals. Sir Risdon Bennett was one of the Commissioners of the Paris Universal Exhibition for 1878. In that year he received from the University of Edinburgh the honorary degree of LL.D. In 1881 he received from Her Majesty the honour of knighthood, and was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Medical Congress. Sir Risdon is at present Member of the Council, and Vice-President of the Royal Society. He married, in 1841, Miss Ellen Selfe Page, daughter of the Rev. Henry Page, M.A., of Rose Hill. Worcester.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bennett, William Cox

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​BENNETT, William Cox, LL.D., the son of Mr. John Bennett, watchmaker, of Greenwich, where he was born in 1820, was educated at a school in his native town, from which, on account of his father's death, he was removed at the age of fourteen to assist his mother in the business. Whilst still a youth, he took an active part in the formation of a literary institution on the most popular basis, which has above 1,200 members, and in connection with which he has formed a library consisting of above 12,000 volumes. He has likewise been instrumental in establishing at Greenwich cheap baths and wash-houses, a large proprietary school, and other popular institutions. He acted as Honorary Auditor of the Association for the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge, till that great reform was effected. He has taken an active part in all the agitations for the education of the people during the past thirty years; is the Hon. Sec. to the Greenwich branch of the National Education League, and a member of the London Council. Dr. Bennett printed volumes of poetry privately in 1843 and 1845. After this, he contributed poems to various periodicals, and published several volumes. Perhaps best known as a song-writer, Dr. Bennett has published, amongst other works, "Poems," 1850; "Verdicts," 1852; "Roan's School: a Chapter in the Educational History of England," which secured the reform of a large endowed school at Greenwich, and threw it open to the children of all the inhabitants, irrespective of their religious beliefs; "War Songs," 1855; "Queen Eleanor's Vengeance, and other Poems," 1857; "Songs, by a Song-Writer," 1859; "Baby May, and other Poems on Infants," 1861, 1st and 2nd editions; "The Worn Wedding Ring," &c., 1861; "The Politics of the People," Parts I. and II.; "Our Glory Roll, National Poems," 1866; "Proposals for Contributions to a Ballad History of England," 1867. A collected edition of his poems appeared in 1862, in "Routledge's British Poets." Dr. Bennett is a practised political writer, and was attached to the staff of the Weekly Dispatch, during the years 1868–9–70, contributing leaders, essays, reviews, and fine-art criticisms. He acted as Secretary to the Refugees' Benevolent Fund during the continuance of the Franco-Prussian War. He has been for several years engaged on a "Ballad and Song History of England, and of the States sprung from Her." He has also ready for press his "Recollections of the late Miss Mitford, with Selections from her Correspondence." The University of Tusculum conferred on him the degree of LL.D. in 1869.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Benson, Edward White

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​BENSON, The Most Rev. Edward White, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan, son of Edward White Benson, Esq., of Birmingham Heath, and formerly of York, was born near Birmingham in 1829. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he was successively Scholar and Fellow, and where he graduated B.A. in 1852, as a First Class in classical honours, and Senior Chancellor's Medallist, obtaining also the place of a Senior Optime in the mathematical tripos. He graduated M.A. in 1855, B.D. in 1862, and D.D. in 1867. He was for some years an assistant master ​in Rugby school, and he held the head mastership of Wellington College from its first opening in 1858 down to 1872, when he was appointed a Canon Residentiary and Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, having been a Prebendary of the same cathedral for three years previously. He was a select preacher to the University of Cambridge (1864–71), and to the University of Oxford (1875–76). For several years he was Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln. In Dec. 1876 he was nominated by the Crown, on the recommendation of the Earl of Beaconsfield, to the newly-founded Bishopric of Truro, and he received episcopal consecration in St. Paul's Cathedral, April 25, 1877. The diocese, which has been taken out of the diocese of Exeter, consists of the county of Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly, and five parishes of Devonshire, constituting the Archdeaconry of Cornwall; with the church of St. Mary, Truro, as a cathedral. During his occupation of the see he began the building of a new cathedral at Truro, of which the outward shell is to cost £90,000, most of that sum having been gathered through the energy of the Bishop. In Dec. 1882 Dr. Benson was appointed by the Crown, on Mr. Gladstone's recommendation, to the Archbishopric of Canterbury, in succession to Dr. Tait. Dr. Benson has published "Sermons preached in Wellington College Chapel," 1859; "Σαλπισει. A memorial Sermon preached after the death of J. P. Lee, first Bishop of Manchester," 1870; "Work, Friendship, Worship," being three sermons preached before the University of Cambridge in 1871; "Boy-Life, its trial, its strength, its fulness. Sundays in Wellington College, 1859–72," Lond. 8vo, 1874; "Singleheart," 1877; and "The Cathedral, its necessary place in the Life and Work of the Church," 1879; besides numerous single sermons; and he is one of the contributors to "The Speaker's Commentary on the Bible." Dr. Benson married, in 1859, Mary, daughter of the late Rev. William Sidgwick, of Skipton, Yorkshire.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bennett, William James Early

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​BENNETT, The Rev. William James Early, M.A., born about 1805, was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, of which he was a student, and where he graduated B.A. in 1827. He held for some years the incumbency of Portman Chapel, and that of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, but resigned the latter in 1851, in consequence of a popular outcry raised against his "Tractarian" ​tendencies, and almost immediately afterwards was presented to the vicarage of Frome Selwood, Somersetshire. He is the author of a large number of theological works, of which the best known are—"Principles of the Book of Common Prayer;" "The Eucharist: its History, Doctrines, and Practice;" "Errors of Romanism;" "Lives of Fathers of the Church of the Fourth Century," and various sermons and pamphlets; has edited the "Theologian," "The Old Church Porch," &c., and has contributed largely to religious periodical literature. In 1871 the case of "Sheppard v. Bennett" came on for hearing before the Privy Council, and was decided in favour of Mr. Bennett's teaching on the subject of the Real Presence. Since then, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, having referred to it, was answered by Mr. Bennett in a pamphlet entitled "A Defence of the Catholic Faith."
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bennigsen, Rudolph Von

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​BENNIGSEN, Rudolph Von, born at Lüneberg, Hanover, July 10, 1824, studied jurisprudence at Göttingen and Heidelberg, and qualified as an advocate, but entered the judiciary and rose to the functions of a judge at Göttingen. In 1855 the city of Aurich elected him to the Second Chamber of the Hanover Legislature, but the King refused him the indispensable consent of the Crown to accept that legislative office. Thereupon he resigned his judgeship, and being thus freed from the trammels of official life, he took his seat in the Parliament (1856), and at once assumed a position as leader of the Opposition. In 1859 Bennigsen and Miguel, with a few others, drew up and issued a programme or scheme of German unity. In this document it was declared that only Prussia could be at the head of a united Germany, and in fact Bennigsen advocated at this period that which Prince Bismarck long afterwards accomplished. The National-Verein held its first sitting Sept. 16, 1859, at the invitation of Bennigsen, and he himself was chosen President. The Frankfort Assembly formed the permanent organization of the National-Verein, and fixed its seat in the city of Coburg. At the time of its dissolution in 1866, it numbered 30,000 members, of whom 10,000 were from Prussia. In that year the organization of the North German Confederation making inevitable the speedy realization of the Empire, the Union had no further raison d'être, and it was accordingly dissolved. Bennigsen, who by the annexation of Hanover was made a Prussian, became a member both of the Prussian Lower Chamber and of the North German Reichstag. During the war of 1870 he was in confidential relations with the Prussian authorities, and undertook two important missions—one to the South German States, where he discussed the conditions of a possible unity; the other to the camp of Versailles in the winter of 1871, where the same negotiations were afterwards carried out to a practical result. In 1873 he was elected President of the Prussian House of Deputies. At the elections of 1877 the Socialist party opposed his candidature, but without success.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Williams, Frederick Sims

​Williams, Frederick Sims, LL.B., Trin. Hall, Camb., 1878, matric. London Univ. 1873, a student of the Inner Temple 18 Nov., 1876 (then aged 21), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1879 (younger son of late Frederick Sims Williams, M.A., of Penrhyn, co. Pembroke, bar.-at-law, dec.); born 18 Jan., 1855; unmarried.
    Lamb Buildings, Temple, E.C.; 2, Mitre Court Buildings, Temple, E.C.; New University Club, S.W.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Williams, Hartley

​Williams, (Hon.) Hartley, puisne judge of the supreme court of Melbourne, Victoria, since 18‒‒, undergrad. Trin. Coll., Oxon, a student of the Inner Temple 27 Jan., 1863 (then aged 19), called to the bar 30 April, 1867 (2nd son of Mr. Justice O. Williams, judge supreme court Victoria, Australia); born , 1844.
    Melbourne, Victoria.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Williams, Henry

​Williams, Henry, M.A., Christ's Coll., Camb., 1852, a member of the South-eastern circuit, a student of Gray's Inn 9 June, 1849, called to the bar 7 June, 1852 (3rd son of John Williams, Esq., late of London, dec.); born , .