Benson, Robert Hugh (1871-1914)

English writer, son of the cleric Edward White Benson. He wrote both novels and religious works, although most of his later works of fiction are vehicles for Catholic propaganda. His poems were published shortly after his death.

His works include The Light Invisible (1903), By What Authority (1904), The King's Achievement (1905), The Queen's Tragedy (1905), Lord of the World (1907), The Conventionalists (1908), and The Dawn of All (1911).

Benson was educated at Cambridge. He held Anglican curacies for some years, but in 1903 was converted to Roman Catholicism, and later became a priest.