George Benn
George Benn was born in Tandragee, County Armagh, in 1801 and educated in Belfast.A celebrated scholar and philanthropist, he wrote numerous papers on Belfast history, culminating in the magisterial A History of the Town of Belfast./>Benn and his brother, Edward, also ran a distillery in County Down and an iron-ore mine in County Antrim. Their charitable donations were instrumental in establishing a church on York Street and three Belfast hospitals.Volume I of A History of the Town of Belfast was published in 1877 by Marcus Ward & Company, Belfast. Volume II followed in 1880.George Benn died just two years later in 1882.
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