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\"Church of England\" Richard Meux Benson Clipped Signature COA:
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Up for sale "Church of England" Richard Meux Benson Clipped Signature. 

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Richard

Meux Benson SSJE (6

July 1824 – 14 January 1915) was a priest in the Church of England and founder of the Society of St. John the

Evangelist, the first religious order of monks in the Anglican He is

commemorated in the Calendar of

Saints of the Anglican Church of Canada on

15 January and of the Episcopal Church (USA) on 16 January. Benson was born

into a wealthy London family in 1824, the son of

merchant Thomas Starling Benson and his second wife, Elizabeth Meux, daughter

of Richard Meux. Henry Roxby Benson was

his elder brother. Benson was taught at home by a private tutor

and entered Christ Church, Oxford. After his degree and ordination and a curacy at Surbiton, in 1850 he became vicar of Cowley, Oxford. He was considered High Church. In 1858, Benson conducted a retreat for priests

using material taken in part from the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. In

1859, having erected a new parish church dedicated to St. John the Evangelist,

Benson planned a mission to India, but abandoned the plan at his bishop's

request. In 1865, two priests joined Benson in Cowley to begin community life

under the name of the Mission Priests of St. John the Evangelist with Benson as

the superior. At the time

there were only convents of Anglican women in England. The form of religious life Benson instituted was not

purely contemplative—its members engaged in active external ministry—but they

recited the Divine Office together

daily in choir. Benson also emphasised contemplation. The brothers were to have

an hour's meditation daily if possible. The community also took a summer

retreat of four weeks, later reduced to a fortnight. Benson prescribed other

retreat days and silence days. As a religious founder, he concentrated on

essentials, among which he advised life-vows (taken with precautions as to

maturity); regular confession; choir office,

prayer and meditation; and priestly ministry. Benson fully recognised his bishop's authority over the community's priests, who

were clergy of the diocese, but not as extending to their private life together. From

1870 to 1883 the society spread to the United States, India and South Africa. Benson himself made an American mission tour. In

1884 the society adopted a constitution and rule that Benson drafted. During

the society's formative phase, Benson continued his duties as a parish priest.

In 1886, he resigned this ministry to devote all his attention to the society

and its mission. In 1890 Benson stepped aside for another to be elected

superior. He spent one year in India and eight years at the American house in

Boston. The season of Lent in 1895 he spent in Baltimore, giving lectures at

several churches there. These included Mount Calvary Church,

which had been denounced less than a year before by Bishop William Paret of the Episcopal Diocese of

Maryland for its high church practices. The

last sixteen years of Benson's life were lived at home again. He celebrated

the Eucharist as long as he could stand at the altar. During

his last years, he was wheeled in a chair to receive communion every morning.

He died on 14 January 1915.

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