George Benson

George Benson (17 November 1856 – 23 October 1935) was a British architect and antiquarian. Biography Born in Liverpool in 1856, Benson's moved to York in his early years where his father (George Benson, b.1815) was an innkeeper on Blossom Street. Benson worked as an architect and was an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects for thirty years between 1898 and 1928. Benson was amember of the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society and served on its Roman Antiquities and Ancient Monuments Committees. He was an active member of the Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Society and worked with William Arthur Evelyn, Edwin Ridsdale Tate, Canon Solloway and TP Cooper to "revive the activities of the Society". He was the honorary archivist at St Martin-cum-Gregory, Micklegate where he was a worshipper. Benson was elected as a member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society in 1892 and subsequently served on its council. Through the YPS he was an Honorary Curator at the Yorkshire Museum from 1918 to 1924, first of Archaeology and then of Numismatics.