Sir Christopher John BensonOAMDL (born 20 July 1933) is a British chartered surveyor and company director, formerly chairman of major companies and public bodies and a High Sheriff of Wiltshire.
Benson was born in Staffordshire in 1933,[1] the son of Charles Woodburn Benson, by his marriage to Catherine Clara Bishton. He trained as a chartered surveyor and became a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He was knighted in 1988.[2] Also in 1988, he became a director of Sun Alliance and in 1993 was elected as its chairman. In 1997, he was appointed by the government to chair its Funding Agency for Schools.[3]
Benson was awarded an honorary Medal of the Order of Australia on 28 January 2020 for service to the bilateral relationship between Australia and the United Kingdom.[5]
Private life
In 1960, in Salisbury, Benson married Margaret Josephine Bundy,[6] a daughter of Ernest Jefferis Bundy. She was later a justice of the peace and a deputy lieutenant of Wiltshire.[2][7] She died on 1 August 2022.[8]
Notes
^“BENSON Christopher J / Bishton /Cannock / 6b 582” in General Index to Births in England and Wales, 1933
^ ab”Benson, Sir Christopher (John)” in Who's Who online, accessed 28 April 2020 (subscription required)
^Fran Abrams, Labour berates Quango largesse in The Independent, 25 February 1997, accessed 27 April 2020
^Masters of the Bench: Sir Christopher Benson FRICS JP DL at middletemple.org.uk, accessed 27 April 2020
^"Order of Australia" (PDF). Gazette. Commonwealth of Australia. 28 January 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
^“BENSON Christopher J / BUNDY Josephine M / Salisbury / 7c 1047” in General Index to Marriages in England and Wales, 1960
^London Gazette, 14 February 1997, page 1925 (Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Wiltshire on 3 February 1997)
^"Benson". Register. The Times. No. 73864. London. 17 August 2022. col 4, p. 49.
February 01, 2023
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