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Major George Henry Benton Fletcher (22 October 1866 – 31 December 1944) was a collector of early keyboard instruments including virginals, clavichords, harpsichords, spinets and early pianos.〔Waitzman, Mimi. '’The Benton Fletcher Collection at Fenton House, Early Keyboard Instruments'’, p. 14. The National Trust 2003. ISBN 0-7078-0353-5〕 His collection is currently housed and kept in playing condition by the National Trust in Fenton House, a beautiful late 17th century merchant's house in Hampstead Grove, Hampstead, London, NW3 6SP.
== Career ==
He was involved in social work in London slums from 1889 to 1899 with Octavia Hill and her Cadet Battalion, in a model social housing scheme in Red Cross Cottages, Southwark.〔Whelan, Robert, "Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow Workers 1872–1911, Kyrle Society 2005 ISBN 0 954891406 p 284-285, 303, 718, xli〕〔Bennett, Lancelot. "Miss Octavia Hill and Cadets", Spectator, 24 August 1912〕 During the Second Boer War and the First World War〔"Obituary", Major Benton Fletcher, Times (England ) 3 January 1945:7〕 he served as a railway transport officer. He assisted Professor Flinders Petrie on excavations in Egypt and Palestine by drawing archaeological finds.〔Flinders Petrie, W.M., Mackay, Ernest and Wainwright, Gerald, "Meydum and Memphis (111)", p.1. British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Bernard Quaritch 1910, London〕 He became an artist, a book illustrator, a writer and a traveller,〔Who was who. V4. Who was who, 1941–1950: a companion to Who's who containing biographies of those who died during the decade 1941–1950, London: Adam & Charles Black, 1967〕 drawing King Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, who had invited him to Arabia in 1921,〔"Rival Arabian Kingdoms: Mecca in Peril; the Hejaz Abdication." Illustrated London News (England ) 11 October 1924: 681. Illustrated London News. Web. 5 January 2015〕 and made many expeditions to the Libyan, Hejaz and Sahara deserts.〔 In 1934 he found an elegant but dilapidated Charles II town house called Old Devonshire House in Holborn. He bought, restored and furnished it with antiques and his growing collection of early keyboard instruments as a music centre for amateurs, students and professionals. He gave this and other houses and his collection of instruments to the National Trust in 1938.〔"Preservation of Old Country Houses." Times (England ) 9 July 1938: 17. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 7 January 2015.〕 He became something of a social and press celebrity and raconteur giving talks on the BBC National Programme radio service in 1938-9〔Fletcher, Benton. "Early Music at Old Devonshire House." Listener (England ) 6 October 1938: 713+, 8.0 Thursday 29 September, which was repeated on Tuesday December 20,10.45 Thursday and 23 March 2, 1939. The Listener Historical Archive. Web. 4 January 2015〕 and early television broadcasts from Alexandra Palace featuring his stories and keyboard instruments in 1937-8.〔TV Script for 29 December 1937, National Trust Inventory number 3075290 Fenton House〕〔(BBC, Alexandra Palace, Tue 23 February, 3.38. Vauxhall a masque - p 4, 5 /RT-TVS-007-72dpi.pdf )〕 His art exhibitions, early musical instrument concerts and furniture collection〔Old Devonshire House, The Cabinet Maker and Complete House Furnisher, 22 January 1938〕〔Devonshire House for the Nation: The Furniture Record, The Furnisher and Hire Trade Review 24 December 1937 p120〕 were patronised by royalty, military and society figures.
Although he was called "the luckiest collector in the world",〔Evening Standard 1935, National Trust Inventory number 3075290 Fenton House〕 he was unlucky that Old Devonshire House was totally destroyed in a Luftwaffe bombing raid on Holborn, London in May 1941.〔"Raid Damage In London." Times (England ) 9 June 1941: 2. The Times Digital Archive: Web. 5 January 2015〕 However he had had the foresight to move most of his keyboard instruments, in January 1941, to Bourton-on-the-Hill in Gloucestershire for safe-keeping during the war and these survived with minimal damage.〔Lees-Milne, James, Prophesying Peace: Diaries 1944–1945, Michael Russell, 2003 p 170 (1977), ISBN 0 85955 283 7〕〔Hunt, Edgar. "A Harpsichord Odyssey (11)", The English Harpsichord Magazine, vol.3, no 1, 1981.〕

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