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on the company's wallpaper designs. W.A.S. Benson & Company became a registered limited company in 1900, with Benson as chairman and Henry
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between 1874 and 1877 studying classics and philosophy. As a child he had been taught how to practice metal work on a lathe, but upon leaving Oxford, he was articled to the London architect
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Morris company, which they did and ran both companies jointly until 1908, when Benson concentrated on his own business and
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with electric lighting, one of the first houses to be fully electrified in
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and an early exponent of electrical lighting design. He is regarded as the greatest
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Cottage, German Street, Winchelsea, East Sussex, for Miss Beatrice and Miss Maud Bennington
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1907 Ballader's Plat, German Street, Winchesea, East Sussex, for Miss Maud Beddington
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The embossing of metals'. The English Illustrated Magazine vol. 7, 1888-89 pp. 39-46
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at a rehearsal of Wagner, and was used by Burnes-Jones as his model for the King in
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