Benjamin Way

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 was also 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]

Family

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.[4][5]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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". Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  3. ↑ Royal Society Database, Way, Benjamin (1740 - 1808)
  4. ↑  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Way, Arthur". Dictionary of National Biography 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  5. ↑  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Way, Gregory Holman Bromley". Dictionary of National Biography 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.