The son of an Archbishop of Canterbury, Benson was educated at Clevedon Preparatory School and Eton. In 1890, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge to study theology and was ordained a deacon in 1894. By 1903, Benson had embraced Roman Catholicism and it was at this time that he began to write fiction. His main works were The Light Invisible (1903), By What Authority? (1904), The King's Achievement (1905), The Queen's Tragedy (1905), The Sentimentalists (1906), The Conventionalists (1908), The Necromancers (1909), The Coward (1912), An Average Man (1913) and Loneliness (1913 posthumous). |
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