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  1. Robert Hugh Monsignor Benson AFSC KC*SG KGCHS (18 November 1871 – 19 October 1914) was an English Catholic priest and writer. First an Anglican priest, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1903 and ordained therein the next year.

  2. Learn about Robert Hugh Benson, a prolific and influential novelist who converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism in 1903. Discover his works, themes, and legacy in this article by Joseph Pearce.

  3. Robert Hugh Benson has 293 books on Goodreads with 21480 ratings. Robert Hugh Bensons most popular book is Lord of the World.

  4. He was Robert Hugh Benson, soon to become the most prominent Catholic novelist of Edwardian England, indeed the best-selling author of explicitly Catholic literature in English of the first half of the twentieth century.

  5. Robert Hugh Benson AFSC KC*SG KGCHS was an English Catholic priest and writer. First an Anglican pastor, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1903 and ordained therein the next year. He was also a prolific writer of fiction, writing the notable dystopian novel Lord of the World, as well as Come Rack!

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    • October 19, 1914
    • November 18, 1871
  6. Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson, a former High Church Anglican Vicar, began writing Lord of the World two years after his conversion to Catholicism rocked the Church of England in 1903.

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  8. Jan 4, 2018 · Robert Hugh Benson, son of Archbishop Edward White Benson, was a prolific author and a convert to Rome in 1903. His spiritual autobiography, Confessions of a Convert, recounts his struggles with Anglicanism and his ecstatic response to Catholicism.