Benjamin Cronyn
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Benjamin Cronyn (11 July 1802 – 21 September 1871) was the first bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Huron. A noted Low Church cleric, he distrusted the what he considered to be romanizing tendencies of Toronto's Trinity College, in 1863, he founded Huron University College which later grew into the secularised the University of Western Ontario in 1908. A member of the prominent Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy Cronyn family, he was the grandfather of politician Hume Cronyn, Sr. and great-grandfather of actor Hume Cronyn, Jr..
Cronyn was also father to Benjamin Cronyn, Jr. a former mayor of London, Ontario and relative of both Robert Whitehead and Edward Blake.
