page_title: Edward White Benson
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Edward White Benson / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Cymraeg: Eglwys Sant Deiniol / St Deiniol, Penarlâg, Sir y Fflint. Yma y mae cofeb W E Gladstone. Adeilad graddedig ll*.Cymraeg: St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, Flintshire. Grade ll* listed building. This is a photo of listed building number 12.
context_page_description: Edward White Benson was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1883 until his death. Prior to this, he was the first Bishop of Truro, serving from 1877 to 1883, and began construction of Truro Cathedral.
  He was previously a schoolmaster and was the first Master of Wellington College from 1859 to 1872.
context_section_description: Benson is best remembered for devising the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, an order first used in Truro Cathedral on Christmas Eve, 1880. Considerably revised by Eric Milner-White for King's College, Cambridge, this service is now broadcast every Christmas around the world.
  Benson was the founder of the Church of England Purity Society, an organisation which later merged with the White Cross Army. Alfred Ryder served as a trustee of the organisation.
  Benson told Henry James a simple, rather inexpert story he had heard about the ghosts of evil servants who tried to lure young children to their deaths. James recorded the idea in his Notebooks and eventually used it as the starting-point for his classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw.
  The hymn "God Is Working His Purpose Out" was written by Arthur C. Ainger as a tribute to Benson as both were Masters at Eton and Rugby respectively.
  In 1914, a boarding house at Wellington College was named in his honour. Benson House carries the emblem of a blue Tudor Rose, and is situated in its own corner of the college grounds.
  In 2011, a book about Mary Benson characterised her husband as living "a life of relentless success".
caption: Memorial to Benson in Hawarden Church
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