Benjamin Langlois (1727–1802) was a British administrator and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1768 and 1780.
[2] But he felt unsure about his future writing to Mitchell on Feb. 1768, 'I am steering in this wide world without a compass and know no more what my fate is to be, than I did at my first step in life'.
Another of Langlois' old friend who came to his assistance was Edward Eliot, who had an interest in six parliamentary seats.
Langlois gratitude towards his friend was recorded in his letters to him "Had I time I would paint to you all the distress of my mind before the happy event, that you might judge my gratitude to you for so suddenly changing my prospect by what you have done"[3] Lady Mary Coke wrote from Vienna "Mr. Langlois, the secretary, sets out for England the end of this week.
Sir Gilbert Elliot described him in 1788 as ”the same diplomatic, old-fashioned coxcomb as ever, and favoured us with a good deal of prose, of and concerning himself and his own consequence; but he is, with all this, an inoffensive and polite man.” Sir Egerton Brydges described him as “a good and benevolent old man, with much diplomatic experience, but most fatiguingly ceremonious, with abilities not much above the common”.