Benson, William (1837)
Benson, William
Fisher St, Knaresborough, Yorks.; joiner and/ or cabinet maker (1837)
Noted as one of the lenders of old carved oak furniture to the ‘Museum of Antiquities’ at the Leeds Exhibition, 1843. All his loans were for sale, which suggests he was also an antique dealer.
Source: DEFM; Lomax, ‘Buying Antiques in Early Victorian Leeds’, Furniture History (1997).