{{Short description|English ironmaster and Liberal politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} thumb|right|Sir Benjamin Hingley as painted by Arthur Stockdale Cope '''Sir Benjamin Hingley, 1st Baronet''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DL}} (11 September 1830 – 13 May 1905) was an English ironmaster and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1895.
==Life== Hingley was born at Cradley, Worcestershire, the son of Noah Hingley and his first wife Sarah Willett. He was educated at Halesowen Grammar School.<ref name="Worcestershire Chronicle 10 June 1893">{{cite news |title=QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000350/18930610/017/0003 |access-date=19 November 2018 |work=Worcestershire Chronicle |via=The British Newspaper Archive |date=10 June 1893|page=3|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He entered the family firms of Noah Hingley and Sons chain and anchor manufacturers and Hingley and Smith colliery proprietors.<ref name="books.google.com">{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=William Retlaw |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ShF62DNCAQC&pg=PA74 |title=The Parliamentary History of the County of Worcester |date=2008-08-01 |publisher=BiblioBazaar |isbn=978-0-554-94344-2 |language=en}}</ref> Hingley and Company had Iron Works at Netherton and Old Hill which were supplied with coal from two small mines at Dudley Wood and Primrose Hill.<ref name="Halsowen Roots - Benjamin Hingley">{{Cite web |title=Benjamin Hingley |url=https://www.halesowenroots.com/benjamins.htm |access-date=2024-03-07 |website=www.halesowenroots.com}}</ref> In 1865 on the death of his brother Hezekiah, he became head of the firms. He was Chairman of the South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire Ironmasters Association. He was also president of the Midland Iron and Steel Wages Board<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/03/04/101939974.pdf|work= New York Times|date= March 4, 1902|title=British Firms Handicapped}}</ref> and of the South Staffordshire Coal Trade Wages Board. Hingley was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Worcestershire at the 1885 general election.<ref name="craig1885-1918">{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |author-link= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 |orig-date=1974 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-27-2 |page=423 }}</ref> He became a Liberal Unionist in 1886 but reverted to the Liberals in 1892,<ref name="craig1885-1918" /> and held the seat until the 1895 general election<ref name="craig1885-1918" /> when he retired through ill-health.{{sfn|Sidney|1912}} He was also an alderman of Dudley and Mayor of Dudley from 1887 to 1889 and county alderman for Staffordshire from 1889 to 1892. He was created a baronet on 8 August 1893. Hingley was also a J.P. for Dudley, Worcestershire and Staffordshire.<ref name="books.google.com"/> He became High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1900,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27171 |page=1520| date=6 March 1900}}</ref> and a deputy lieutenant of the county that summer.<ref name="may900">{{London Gazette | issue=27198 |page=3501 | date=1 June 1900}}</ref> In 1903, he was elected president of the Mining Association of Great Britain.
thumb|Blue Plaque at Hatherton Lodge
Hingley lived at Hatherton Lodge, Cradley, where he died on 13 May 1905, and was buried at Halesowen Church Yard. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew, George Benjamin Hingley.{{sfn|Sidney|1912}} A blue plaque on the site of Hatherton Lodge commemorates Noah and Benjamin.
Hingley laid the foundation stone for the Methodist Church in Birmingham Street, which has since been converted to a bar and restaurant called "Benjamin's".<ref name="Halsowen Roots - Benjamin Hingley"/>
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==References== *{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Hingley, Benjamin|volume=2|first=Leicester Philip|last=Sidney}}
== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | sir-benjamin-hingley | Sir Benjamin Hingley }}
{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{s-new | constituency | reason = see West Worcestershire }} {{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for North Worcestershire | years = 1885 – 1895 }} {{s-aft | after= John William Wilson }} {{s-reg|uk-bt}} {{s-new|creation}} {{s-ttl| title=Baronet<br />'''(of Hatherton Lodge)| years='''1893–1905}} {{s-aft|after=George Benjamin Hingley}} {{s-hon}} {{succession box | title = High Sheriff of Worcestershire | before = Charles Wilson Dyson Perrins | after = Sir Henry Foley Lambert | years = 1900 – 1901 }} {{s-end}}
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