Benjamin Smith

The following excerpts from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Turner_Smith - wikipedia entry for Benjamin's wife, the poet and author Charlotte Turner Smith:

In a marriage that she later described as prostitution, Charlotte Turner was given by her father to the violent and profligate Benjamin Smith. Their marriage was deeply unhappy, although they had twelve children together. Charlotte persuaded her father-in-law to set Benjamin up as a gentleman farmer in Hampshire and lived with him at Lys Farm from 1774 until 1783. Benjamin ended up in King's Bench Prison in December 1783. Charlotte moved in with him and it was in this environment that she wrote and published her first work, Elegiac Sonnets (1784).[4] Elegiac Sonnets achieved instant success, allowing Charlotte to pay for their release from prison.

After Benjamin Smith was released from prison, the entire family moved to Dieppe, France to avoid further creditors. In 1785, the family returned to England and moved to Woolbeding House near Midhurst, Sussex.[3] Smith's relationship with her husband did not improve and on 15 April 1787, after twenty-two years of marriage, she left him.

On 23 February 1806, Benjamin died in a debtors' prison.