William Benton (cricketer)

William Manstead Benton (11 July 1873 – 17 August 1916) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex in two matches in 1913.

He was born in Chelsea, London and died near Méricourt-l'Abbé, France, on active service during World War I.

The year before his death on active service, he was wounded in France and sent home as an invalid in 1915.

[2] Before the First World War, he had been curate-in-charge of Bearsted in Kent, and his club cricket was for Mote Park Cricket Club in Maidstone.

[3] This biographical article related to an English cricket person born in the 1870s is a stub.