Richard Benyon (MP for Peterborough)

Richard Benyon (1746–1796) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1796.

Benyon was the son of Richard Benyon, President of Madras and his third wife Mary Tyssen, daughter of Francis Tyssen of Hackney, and was born on 28 June 1746.

His father died on 27 September 1774 and he succeeded to his estates at Gidea Hall and Englefield House.

[1] Benyon was a friend and contemporary at Eton of Lord Fitzwilliam, and was returned on his interest as Member of Parliament for Peterborough at a by-election on 16 February 1774.

[1] Benyon died ‘of the gout in his stomach’ on 22 August 1796, leaving estates in Essex and Berkshire worth £8,000 p.a.