William Benham (zoologist)


Sir William Blaxland Benham was a New Zealand zoologist.
He was born in Isleworth, Middlesex, England, on 29 March 1860. He studied at Marlborough College and London University and taught at Bedford College, London before moving to New Zealand in 1898. He was a member of the 1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition. From 1905 to 1911 he was the Governor in Council of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute.
He retired in 1936 and was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1939 Birthday Honours.

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