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Richard De Gylpyn Benson (1856–1904) BygoneBryologists Richard de Gylpyn Benson (1856–1904) Bryological career This is one in a series of articles by had four sons – Richard, followed by Edwin n Richard de Gylpyn Benson. Ron Shoubridge; reproduced from an image kindly lent by Mr and Mrs Following a suggestion by Sir William Gower, Bernard (1858–1940), Sawrey Brownlow (1861– Mark Lawley about prominent British Alan de Gylpyn Benson. Benson took up the study of mosses (and after- 1918), and Francis Charles Jeffreys (1863–1878). wards botany in general) to occupy himself in and Irish field bryologists of the past. Edwin was an unmarried district superintendent Richard de Gylpyn (‘Richard the Rider’) who retirement, and found many mosses (but no Mark would be very pleased to learn and lecturer at a school for the United Kingdom was granted the 4,000 acre manor of Kentmere, liverworts) new to the district around his home in Alliance (a temperance movement) at Torquay and who slew the last wild boar in Westmorland of any information which supplements mid-Shropshire. These included Grimmia mon- in 1901. He never married, became an architect, during the reign of King John. tana from the Wrekin, Hamatocaulis vernicosus its content. A Social and Biographical and lived in Shrewsbury. Sawrey became a priest, On Richard’s mother’s side of the family, and Orthotrichum rupestre from the Long Mynd, History of British and Irish Field-bryol- like many of his forebears. Elizabeth Barbara Gilpin was a daughter of the Rhabdoweisia fugax and Splachnum ampullaceum Benson’s father, Richard senior, qualified as Reverend Bernard Gilpin (1803–1871), non- from the Stiperstones, Syntrichia princeps from ogists is also available online at www. a physician and practised for a while in Harley conformist minister of Bengeo, Hertford, and Pontesford Hill, and Tortula wilsonii from britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk Street, London, but a spinal complaint compelled Henrietta (née Jeffreys, 1807–1841). Henrietta Pulverbatch. his retirement in the late 1850s, and he spent the was a great-great-grandniece of Charles ‘Hanging He wrote a paper entitled ‘Shropshire Mosses’ History Museum in London. Other plants are in rest of his long life practising as a non-conformist Judge’ Jeffreys (1645–1689), Lord Chancellor of for the Journal of Botany (1893), which contains the Biology Department at Shrewsbury School minister at Church Pulverbatch in Shropshire, the Exchequer. Bernard Gilpin was a younger an annotated checklist of all mosses then known and Merseyside County Museum. where his grandfather had formerly been rector, brother of Frances Gilpin who married John to occur in the county. At about the same time Benson also compiled a number of volumes and where some of the family continued to reside. Benson; their parents were the Reverend William he compiled a two-volume List of Mosses collected of exsiccatae, containing dried specimens of Richard and Elizabeth’s two younger sons – Gilpin (1757–1848), who was rector of Church in Shropshire which is now in the Shropshire mosses which he had collected and named him- Sawrey and Francis – were both born at Pulverbatch for 42 years, and Elizabeth Barbara Records and Research Centre at Shrewsbury self. Extant examples are at Cardiff and Stoke Pulverbatch. (née Farish, 1760–1832). Thus, Richard de (ref: 6001/6745-6). He also contributed many Museum, and in the possession of his grandson, Richard Brownlow Benson was a son of Gylpyn Benson had the same great-grandparents bryological records to W.P. Hamilton’s account Alan de Gylpyn Benson. Reverend John Benson (1783–1860), rector of on both his mother’s and father’s side of the in Volume 2 of Church Stretton. Some results of Benson joined the Moss Exchange Club before Norton-sub-Hamden in Somerset, and Frances family. Elizabeth Farish was sister to William local scientific research, which was published in 1899, and remained a member until his death. (née Gilpin, 1794–1865). John Benson was a son Farish (1759–1837), professor of chemistry and 1904, the year that Benson died. In addition, of Joseph Benson (1749–1821), who was born philosophy at Cambridge. Their father was the Benson prepared text for the Victoria County Family background at Melmerby in Cumbria, where his father John Reverend James Farish (1714–1783), vicar of History of Shropshire (1908, pp. 54–55). Between them, Benson’s ancestors boast varied (died 1769) was a landowner. The many blood- Stanwix near Carlisle, who had married Elizabeth His bryological herbarium is at Shrewsbury accomplishments, and at least eight of them links between the families of Benson, Gilpin, Gilpin (born 1726), sister to Reverend William Museum, and about 900 of his gatherings from are deemed worthy of accounts in the Diction- Sawrey and Farish arise because long ago they all Gilpin Sr (1724–1804). Shropshire and the Welsh border went to the ary of National Biography. His father, Richard lived in the far north-west of England. Indeed, William Gilpin (1757–1848) was William National Museum and Gallery of Wales at Cardiff Brownlow Benson (1831–1914) married Eliza- the spelling of Richard de Gylpyn Benson’s Gilpin’s (1724–1804) son. Gilpin senior was a in 1915, with further mosses at the Natural beth Barbara Gilpin (1831–1917) in 1855. They middle name alludes to his distant ancestor well-known exponent of the picturesque during 30 FieldBryology No99 | Oct09 FieldBryology No99 | Oct09 31 BygoneBryologists Richard de Gylpyn Benson (1856–1904) Bryological career This is one in a series of articles by had four sons – Richard, followed by Edwin n Richard de Gylpyn Benson. Ron Shoubridge; reproduced from an image kindly lent by Mr and Mrs Following a suggestion by Sir William Gower, Bernard (1858–1940), Sawrey Brownlow (1861– Mark Lawley about prominent British Alan de Gylpyn Benson. Benson took up the study of mosses (and after- 1918), and Francis Charles Jeffreys (1863–1878). wards botany in general) to occupy himself in and Irish field bryologists of the past. Edwin was an unmarried district superintendent Richard de Gylpyn (‘Richard the Rider’) who retirement, and found many mosses (but no Mark would be very pleased to learn and lecturer at a school for the United Kingdom was granted the 4,000 acre manor of Kentmere, liverworts) new to the district around his home in Alliance (a temperance movement) at Torquay and who slew the last wild boar in Westmorland of any information which supplements mid-Shropshire. These included Grimmia mon- in 1901. He never married, became an architect, during the reign of King John. tana from the Wrekin, Hamatocaulis vernicosus its content. A Social and Biographical and lived in Shrewsbury. Sawrey became a priest, On Richard’s mother’s side of the family, and Orthotrichum rupestre from the Long Mynd, History of British and Irish Field-bryol- like many of his forebears. Elizabeth Barbara Gilpin was a daughter of the Rhabdoweisia fugax and Splachnum ampullaceum Benson’s father, Richard senior, qualified as Reverend Bernard Gilpin (1803–1871), non- from the Stiperstones, Syntrichia princeps from ogists is also available online at www. a physician and practised for a while in Harley conformist minister of Bengeo, Hertford, and Pontesford Hill, and Tortula wilsonii from britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk Street, London, but a spinal complaint compelled Henrietta (née Jeffreys, 1807–1841). Henrietta Pulverbatch. his retirement in the late 1850s, and he spent the was a great-great-grandniece of Charles ‘Hanging He wrote a paper entitled ‘Shropshire Mosses’ History Museum in London. Other plants are in rest of his long life practising as a non-conformist Judge’ Jeffreys (1645–1689), Lord Chancellor of for the Journal of Botany (1893), which contains the Biology Department at Shrewsbury School minister at Church Pulverbatch in Shropshire, the Exchequer. Bernard Gilpin was a younger an annotated checklist of all mosses then known and Merseyside County Museum. where his grandfather had formerly been rector, brother of Frances Gilpin who married John to occur in the county. At about the same time Benson also compiled a number of volumes and where some of the family continued to reside. Benson; their parents were the Reverend William he compiled a two-volume List of Mosses collected of exsiccatae, containing dried specimens of Richard and Elizabeth’s two younger sons – Gilpin (1757–1848), who was rector of Church in Shropshire which is now in the Shropshire mosses which he had collected and named him- Sawrey and Francis – were both born at Pulverbatch for 42 years, and Elizabeth Barbara Records and Research Centre at Shrewsbury self. Extant examples are at Cardiff and Stoke Pulverbatch. (née Farish, 1760–1832). Thus, Richard de (ref: 6001/6745-6). He also contributed many Museum, and in the possession of his grandson, Richard Brownlow Benson was a son of Gylpyn Benson had the same great-grandparents bryological records to W.P. Hamilton’s account Alan de Gylpyn Benson. Reverend John Benson (1783–1860), rector of on both his mother’s and father’s side of the in Volume 2 of Church Stretton. Some results of Benson joined the Moss Exchange Club before Norton-sub-Hamden in Somerset, and Frances family. Elizabeth Farish was sister to William local scientific research, which was published in 1899, and remained a member until his death. (née Gilpin, 1794–1865). John Benson was a son Farish (1759–1837), professor of chemistry and 1904, the year that Benson died. In addition, of Joseph Benson (1749–1821), who was born philosophy at Cambridge. Their father was the Benson prepared text for the Victoria County Family background at Melmerby in Cumbria, where his father John Reverend James Farish (1714–1783), vicar of History of Shropshire (1908, pp. 54–55). Between them, Benson’s ancestors boast varied (died 1769) was a landowner.
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