Benjamin Parsons Symons

Benjamin Parsons Symons (28 January 1785 – 12 April 1878) was an academic administrator at the University of Oxford in England.

[1] He was educated at Sherborne School and matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford, on 2 February 1802, where he was admitted as a scholar on 25 October 1803.

On 23 January 1831 he obtained the degree of Doctor of Divinity and on 16 June of that year he was elected Warden of the College.

[4] He resigned the wardenship on 18 October 1871, but continued to reside in Oxford until his death in 1878.

[1] He changed the time of dinner at Wadham to inconvenience any students wishing to attend Newman's sermons.