Lord Alfred Douglas, the friend and lover of Oscar Wilde, and when an acquaintance protested that the connection with Douglas was inappropriate for him, he replied: "Lord Alfred Douglas is my friend, and he'll come down when he likes!" Like many of his conservative and right-wing contemporaries, Robert Hugh Benson opposed the writings of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and similar 19th century writers. Robert Hugh Benson was intolerant of most liberal and left-wing political and economic movements of his day. He regarded them as part of a Communist, Freemason and Jewish cabal. In spite of Robert Hugh Benson's hatred of republicanism, he had a mostly positive view of the United States due to its political conservatism and deeply religious population. He sympathized more with the USA than most Catholics of his time, because he regarded Europe and Latin America as secular, liberal/left-wing, casual and modern. Death and legacy Benson died of pneumonia in 1914 in Salford, where he had been preaching a mission; he was 42. As he had requested, he was buried in the orchard of Hare Street House, his house in the Hertfordshire village of Hare Street. A chapel, dedicated to St Hugh, was built over the site. Benson bequeathed the house to the Catholic Church as a country retreat for the Archbishop of Westminster. The Catholic church in the nearby town of Buntingford, which he helped finance, is dedicated to St Richard of Chichester, but also known as the Benson Memorial Church. In 2019, the house was put up for sale. Benson's body was exhumed and moved to the crypt of St Edmund's College in Old Hall Green. The Benson Club is a Catholic reading group named in his honour at Fisher House, Cambridge. Gallery Works Science fiction A Mirror of Shalott, Benziger Brothers, 1907. Lord of the World, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1908 [1st Pub. 1907]. The Dawn of All, B. Herder, 1911. Historical fiction By What Authority?, Isbister, 1904. Come Rack! Come Rope!, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1913 [1st Pub. 1912]. Oddsfish!, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1914. The King's Achievement, Burns Oates & Washbourne, Lrd., 1905. The Queen's Tragedy, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1907. The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1912. Initiation, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1914. Contemporary fiction The Light Invisible, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., 1906. The Sentimentalists, Sir Isaac