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Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley, PC ( c. 1676 – 9 April 1731) was an English Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1702 until 1713 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Bingley and sat in the House of Lords. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1711 to 1713.
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Robert Benson, primer barón Bingley (c. 1676-1731) fue un político y diplomático inglés del siglo XVIII. Fue a la escuela en Londres antes de estudiar en el Christ's College de Cambridge. Fue miembro del Parlamento de Thetford en Norfolk entre 1702 y 1705, tras lo cual fue miembro del Parlamento británico por York.
Robert Benson, Baron Bingley, was derided by his contemporaries for his lowly origins and for his rise up the Tory ranks through an advantageous marriage, and has been dismissed by more recent historians for an innocuous ‘moderate’ Toryism and a seemingly slavish devotion to Robert Harley, earl of Oxford. 6 At the time of the change of ministry ...
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The Baroque mansion was built in 1698 for Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley. It has remained in the ownership of Benson's descendants since its completion in 1710.[full citation needed] He died with no male heirs and the barony was extinguished. The estate passed into the hands of his son-in-Law George Fox-Lane (c.1697–1773), who was given the re-cr...
Bramham is a product of a grand tour; its creator Robert Benson, later Lord Bingley, completed his formal education with a grand tour in 1697, and whilst in Italy he began to envisage his new mansion in the Palladian manner complemented in a landscaped park, in the fashion made popular by Le Nôtrein France in the late 17th century. The architect of...
The interior of Bramham Park was completely restored in the early part of the 20th century, having mostly been abandoned after the fire of 1828. The central Great Hall, double storey in height and severe in its Baroque design, still bears the smoke staining on its stone walls.
The parkland surrounding the house contains a number of grade I listed ornamental structures, including: 1. The Chapel Situated at the rear of the house, the chapel, was built around 1760 by James Paine for George Fox Lane in the local Magnesian limestone ashlar. It was constructed in the classical style as a single unit of 2 storeys and 3 bays and...
Girouard, Mark (1978). Life in the English Country House. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-02273-5.
Robert Benson, primer barón Bingley, PC (c. 1676 – 9 de abril de 1731) fue un político conservador inglés que se sentaba en la Cámara de Representantes inglesa y británica. Comunes desde 1702 hasta 1713, cuando fue elevado a la categoría de barón Bingley y se sentó en la Cámara de los Lores.
Built for Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley circa 1710, the magnificent Baroque country house and immense pleasure gardens are best known today for hosting the Bramham International Horse Trials and the Reading and Leeds Festival, a yearly rock music event that draws crowds of upwards 100,000 people.
