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Author Description <b>Arthur Christopher Benson</b> was an English essayist, poet, author and academic and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.<br /><br />Benson was born on 24 April 1862 at Wellington College, Berkshire. He was one of six children of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/383215.Edward_White_Benson" title="Edward White Benson" rel="nofollow noopener">Edward White Benson</a> (1829-1896; Archbishop of Canterbury 1882–96; the first headmaster of the college) and his wife Mary Sidgwick Benson, sister of the philosopher <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/28200.Henry_Sidgwick" title="Henry Sidgwick" rel="nofollow noopener">Henry Sidgwick</a>.<br /><br />Benson was born into a literary family; his brothers included <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13479797.E_F__Benson" title="E.F. Benson" rel="nofollow noopener">E.F. Benson</a>, best remembered for his Mapp and Lucia novels, and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/330845.Robert_Hugh_Benson" title="Robert Hugh Benson" rel="nofollow noopener">Robert Hugh Benson</a>, a priest of the Church of England before converting to Roman Catholicism, who wrote many popular novels. Their sister, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1898361.Margaret_Benson" title="Margaret Benson" rel="nofollow noopener">Margaret Benson</a>, was an artist, author, and amateur Egyptologist.

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