Benjamin Way
English politician
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Benjamin Way (1740–1808) of Denham Place was an English politician, Member of Parliament for Bridport in 1765.[1][2]
The son of Lewis Way F.R.S., director of the South Sea Company by his third wife Abigail, he matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1758. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, elected 1771, and of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He acted as High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1777; was President of Guy's Hospital; and was Sub-Governor of the South Sea Company.[1][3][4]
He was commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel and second in command of the Royal Buckinghamshire Militia (King's Own) in 1794,[5] and was in command of the battalion at Chelmsford Barracks during the 'invasion summer' of 1805.[6]
Family
By his wife Elizabeth Anne, daughter of William Cooke, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, he had seven sons and nine daughters.[1] Lewis Way was the second son. Gregory Holman Bromley Way was the fifth son.[7][8] His daughter Catherine married Sir Montague Cholmeley, 1st Bt. (b. 20 Mar 1772, d. 10 Mar 1831).