Arthur Benham

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Arthur Benham
Born1871 or 1872
Died (aged 23)
Brighton, England

Arthur Benham (c. 1872 – 8 September 1895) was an English playwright.

He was born into a Jewish family, the son of Henry Benham. His sister was the actress Estelle Burney, who collaborated in his plays,[1] and another sibling, Charles Benham, wrote the novel The Fourth Napoleon (1897).[2]

Benham was a dramatist of considerable promise, and was the author of The County and The Awakening—the latter produced for a short run at the Garrick Theatre,[3] and the former at Terry's Theatre.[4] He was also a member of the Maccabæans.[2]

He died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-three,[5] leaving behind several unfinished works.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Small Talk". The Sketch. 18 (228): 259. 9 June 1897.
  2. ^ a b Rubinstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael A.; Rubinstein, Hillary L., eds. (2011). "Benham, Arthur". The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6. OCLC 793104984.
  3. ^ Wearing, J. P. (2014). The London Stage 1890–1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel (2nd ed.). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-8108-9282-8.
  4. ^ Eglington, Charles, ed. (1 July 1892). "Our Play-Box". The Theatre: A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music, and the Fine Arts. 20. London: Eglington & Co.: 30.
  5. ^ The Annual Register: A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad for the Year 1895. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1896. p. 203.
  6. ^ "Echoes from the Green Room". The Theatre: A Monthly Review and Magazine. 26. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co.: 247 1 October 1895.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jacobs, Joseph; Lipkind, Goodman (1902). "Benham, Arthur". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 17.


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