Benson, Constantine Walter

Constantine Walter Benson (1909-1982) was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He entered Colonial Service in 1932 and worked in Malawi and Zambia until his retirement in 1965. Since that time, he worked to re-catalogue the collection of birds in the University Museum of Zoology. He wrote many papers on African ornithology.

From the guide to the Papers and Correspondence of C.W. Benson, 1960-1982, (University of Cambridge: Museum of Zoology)