# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/a-c-benson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:39:48.258Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/a-c-benson"
name: "A. C. Benson"
slug: "a-c-benson"
description: "Arthur Christopher Benson, was an English essayist, poet and academic, who served as the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He wrote the lyrics of Edward Elgar's Coronation Ode, including the words of the patriotic song \"Land of Hope and Glory\" (1902). His literary criticism, poems, and volumes of essays were highly regarded. He was also noted as an author of ghost stories. According to contemporary critics and historians, he is thought to have been homosexual; homosexual themes often present themselves very subtly in his work. Benson's diary is one of the longest diaries in the English language."
tagline: "English essayist and poet, 1862–1925 (1862–1925)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bensonac.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1862-04-24"
deathDate: "1925-06-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump