Gov. Richard Benyon

Richard Benyon (1698 to 1774) was a British merchant and colonial administrator who served as the President of Madras from 23 January 1735 to 14 January 1744.

Orphaned at 10, he was sent out to India to join the East India Company, where he rose to serve as Governor of Fort St George, Madras, from 1735 to 1744.

Benyon married twice at Fort St George, firstly to Mary Fleetwwod, daughter of Edward Fleetwood and secondly to Frances Davis, the daughter of Richard Horden and widow of Sandys Davis.

He died in 1774. There is a monument to him in St Margaret's Church, Margaretting, Essex.

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3rd wife also seen as Mary Tyssen,

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Benyon_of_Madras
• http://www.berkshirehistory.com/castles/englefield_house.html
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Benyon-24
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Benyon-69
• Bernard Burke Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain 1858 p.76 link
• Swallowfield and its Owners by Lady Constance Russell 1901

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• Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 113

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Governor of Bengal. Purchased Gidea Hall, Essex.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=qmh2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1428&lpg=PA1428&...