Benjamin Way

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Benjamin Way (1740–1808) of Denham Place was an English politician, Member of Parliament for Bridport in 1765.[1][2]

The son of Lewis Way F.R.S., director of the South Sea Company by his third wife Abigail, he matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1758. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, elected 1771, and of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He acted as High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1777; was President of Guy's Hospital; and was Sub-Governor of the South Sea Company.[1][3][4]

He was commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel and second in command of the Royal Buckinghamshire Militia (King's Own) in 1794,[5] and was in command of the battalion at Chelmsford Barracks during the 'invasion summer' of 1805.[6]

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By his wife Elizabeth Anne, daughter of William Cooke, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, he had seven sons and nine daughters.[1] Lewis Way was the second son. Gregory Holman Bromley Way was the fifth son.[7][8] His daughter Catherine married Sir Montague Cholmeley, 1st Bt. (b. 20 Mar 1772, d. 10 Mar 1831).

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  1. ^ a b c Bernard Burke (1871). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. 1481.
  2. ^ "Way, Benjamin (1740-1808), of Denham Place, Bucks. History of Parliament Online". Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  3. ^ Royal Society Database, Way, Benjamin (1740 - 1808)[dead link]
  4. ^ s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Way, Benjamin (1)
  5. ^ War Office, A List of the Officers of the Militia, the Gentlemen & Yeomanry Cavalry, and Volunteer Infantry of the United Kingdom, 11th Edn, London: War Office, 14 October 1805/Uckfield: Naval and Military Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-84574-207-2.
  6. ^ Steve Brown, 'Home Guard: The Forces to Meet the Expected French Invasion/1 September 1805' at The Napoleon Series (archived at the Wayback Machine).
  7. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Way, Arthur" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  8. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Way, Gregory Holman Bromley" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.