| Description | Mr A.W. Ashby believes "J.A.Benson" to be a pseudonym for Joseph Ashby: "Some of the articles - particularly that of 'An Old Miller and His Mill' and 'A Union Meeting' - would appear to be based on Tysoe people and events. Moreover Joseph's daughter, M.K. Ashby....once wrote an article in The Countryman, Spring 1959, under the name Mabel Benson. In a letter dated May 26, 1927 [see below, 16/4] Arthur Ashby indicated that his father...wrote articles for The Land Magazine from 1897 on." And see Joseph Ashby p.x. |