page_title: Ivy Benson
section_title: Honours
hierarchical_section_title: Ivy Benson / Honours
caption_attribution_description: English: Ivy Benson Blue Plaque
context_page_description: Ivy Benson was an English musician and bandleader, who led an all-female swing band. Benson and her band rose to fame in the 1940s, headlining variety theatres and topping the bill at the London Palladium, and became the BBC's resident house band.
context_section_description: Benson was made an honorary fellow of Leeds Polytechnic in 1988, the only significant honour she received during her lifetime. In 2011 she was commemorated by Leeds Civic Trust with a blue plaque placed at her childhood home in Cemetery Road, Holbeck.
  Ivy Benson has a ward named after her in Clacton Hospital.
caption: Ivy Benson Blue Plaque
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