[Henry Benjamin]. English philologist and bibliographer, born at Chelsea, England, on the 2nd of May 1838. He was clerk to the Royal Society from 1861 to 1879; one of the founders of the Early English Text Society, and its honorary secretary until 1872; assistant secretary to the Society of Arts in 1879; secretary of the Topographical Society, and of the Index Society of London. He is author of the following articles in this Encyclopædia: Index, London (History of), Middlesex; besides having edited and written works upon a variety of subjects, including Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In (1880); Decorative Art (1884); How to Catalogue a Library (1887).
