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St Edwards College
Liverpool

Nick Benson RIP

Nick Benson was the younger brother of John Benson, who has supplied this information.

Nicholas Benson left St Edwards approx 1959, and studied aeronautical engineering at Bristol. He worked at Avro Manchester, before emigrating to Brazil in 1964 where he was involved in Brazilian airforce rocket development (V2 type weapons with a lot of WW2 Germans). Nick was married with 5 children and died in 1989 from the accumulated effects of C.W. & WWW.