File. John William Benton - Lay Missioner

Reference No:
U DMS/4/110
Dates:
1920s-1930s
Description:
File containing records relating to John William Benton, a lay missioner who worked for the Missions to Seamen in Peru during the 1930s. Includes: 2 medals; press cuttings; photographs; manuscript address/sermon; identity card for Clara Benton; letters; signed and sealed appointment to position of diocesan lay reader at Lima, Peru; typescript essay 'Callao 1929-1932'; typescript and manuscript drafts of an account 'Our Trip to Huancayo - Peru'; register recording statistics for [Peru mission house] in the period 1929-1932. Note that the file also contains correspondence between William Cassell (as executor of the daughter of John Benton) and Martin Sandford (as Executive Director of the Missions to Seamen) regarding the deposit of the file, 2009.
Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 file
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Records of the Head Office of the Mission to Seafarers (formerly known as the Missions to Seamen)