Ernest Alfred Benians

Ernest Alfred Benians (23 October 1880, Goudhurst, Kent – February 1952) was a British academic and historian.[1]

He was born in Goudhurst, Kent, and was educated at Bethany School, where his father was headmaster.[1] He went up to the University of Cambridge in 1899, where he was admitted to St John's College[2], and became President of the Nonconformist Union[3]. After graduating, he became a Fellow of St John's in 1906, followed by a succession of teaching appointments within the university.[1] He was Master of St John's 1933–1952 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1939–1941.[1]

Selected publications

References and sources
References
  1. Janus notes
  2. "Benians, Ernest Alfred (BNNS899EA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. Diary of James Chuter Ede, recording Benians's death, 14 February 1952
Sources
gollark: Radio astronomy is also fairly expensive.
gollark: I mean, you can, but that would be stupid and no.
gollark: You can't use a claim as evidence for itself.
gollark: > About the latter half of the question, the inverse square root law would imply that the rules that generally put down magnetism are removed.What? No. It wouldn't imply that, because galactic orbits run on gravity and have nothing to do with electromagnetism.
gollark: Galaxy rotation just runs on regular gravity-driven orbits like, well, the solar system and whatnot, no? I don't know if your claim about the "inverse square root law" thing is accurate, but it doesn't seem to mean very much.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Robert Forsyth Scott		 Master of St John's College, Cambridge
1933–1952		 Succeeded by
James Wordie


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