AC Benson
Arthur Christopher Benson, FRSL (24 Afrilu 1862 - 17 Yuni 1925) mawallafin Ingilishi ne, mawaƙi kuma ilimi, kuma Jagora na 28th na Kwalejin Magdalene, Cambridge. Ya rubuta waƙar Edward Elgar 's Coronation Ode, gami da kalmomin waƙar kishin ƙasa "Ƙasa na bege da ɗaukaka" (1902). Sukar adabinsa da waqoqinsa da maqalolinsa sun yi matuqar daraja. An kuma lura da shi a matsayin marubucin labarun fatalwa.

Rayuwar farko da iyali 
An haifi Benson a ranar 24 ga Afrilu 1862 a Kwalejin Wellington, Berkshire a matsayin ɗayan yara shida na Edward White Benson (1829-1896), Archbishop na Canterbury daga 1883 zuwa 1896 kuma, kafin wannan, shugaban farko na kwalejin. Mahaifiyarsa, Mary Sidgwick Benson, 'yar'uwar masanin falsafa Henry Sidgwick ce.

wallafe-wallafen Iyalin Benson sun haɗa da 'yan uwansa Edward Frederic Benson, wanda aka fi tunawa da shi don litattafan Mapp da Lucia, da kuma Robert Hugh Benson, wani firist na Cocin Ingila kafin ya koma Roman Katolika, wanda ya rubuta litattafai masu yawa. 'Yar'uwarsu Margaret Benson ta kasance mai zane-zane, marubuci, kuma mai son Egyptologist . Ko da yake an cika su sosai, dangin Benson sun haɗu da lokuta masu ban tsoro: ɗa da ɗiyarsu sun mutu suna ƙanana, yayin da wata diya da Arthur da kansa suka sha wahala daga yanayin tabin hankali wanda wataƙila ya kasance cuta ce ta bipolar  ko ciwon hauka-depressive, da alama sun gaji mahaifinsu. Babu daya daga cikin yaran da suka yi aure.

Duk da rashin lafiyarsa, Arthur zai zama fitaccen malami kuma ƙwararren marubuci. Daga shekarun 10 zuwa 21, ya rayu a cikin babban coci na rufe, na farko a Lincoln inda mahaifinsa ya kasance Chancellor na Lincoln Cathedral, sannan a Truro, inda mahaifinsa shine Bishop na farko na Truro. Ya ci gaba da son kiɗan coci da bikin.A cikin 1874 ya sami gurbin karatu zuwa Eton daga Makarantar Temple Grove, makarantar share fage a Gabashin Sheen . A cikin 1881 ya tafi Kwalejin King, Cambridge, inda ya kasance malami (King's College ya rufe guraben karo karatu wanda Etonians kawai suka cancanci) kuma ya sami karramawa na farko a cikin Classical tripos a 1884.

Sana'a 
Daga 1885 zuwa 1903 Benson ya koyar a Eton, amma ya koma Cambridge a 1904 a matsayin ɗan'uwan Kwalejin Magdalene don yin lacca a cikin Adabin Turanci. Ya zama shugaban kwalejin (Mataimakin Jagora) a 1912, kuma shi ne Jagora na Magdalene (shugaban kwalejin) daga Disamba 1915 har zuwa mutuwarsa a 1925. Daga 1906, ya kasance gwamna na Makarantar Gresham .

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