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Benson (ROBERT HUGH an English prelate)

ROBERT HUGH, an English prelate and writer, born in 1871, brother of A. C. and E. F. Benson. He was educated at Trinity College. He became associated with Dean Vaughan and other Roman Catholic clerics, and in 1903 was received in the Roman Catholic church. He was ordained priest in the following year. In 1911 he was appointed private chamberlain to Pope Pius X. He wrote much on religious subjects and published several novels. The best known of the latter are "The Coward"; "Come Rack! Come Rope!"; "An Average Man" (1913). He died in 1914.