Portrait of William Blaxland Benham (1860-1950) mb-height 3338 playing a variety of instruments

playing a variety of instruments & singing

Interior view of the riding house

servants and prisoners

A seal chain or decoration is visible at his waistband

is beating his disabled horse savagely

Portrait of William Blaxland Benham (1860-1950) mb-height 3338 playing a variety of instrumentsFormal photographic portrait of William Blaxland Benham, half length, full face. Inscription on card reads: 'MAULL & FOX 187 PICCADILLY LONDON, W.' Benham was appointed professor of biology at Bedford College for Women, London, in 1886. He became professor of biology at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1898 and later became the president of the New Zealand Institute (1916 1917). Benham's main area of study was on the microstructure