Richard Meux Benson, English priest and saint, founded the Society of St. John the Evangelist (b. 1824)
Richard Meux Benson (6 July 1824 – 14 January 1915) was a priest in the Church of England and founder of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, the first religious order of monks in the Anglican Communion since the Reformation. He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Anglican Church of Canada on 15 January and in the Calendar of Saints with a Lesser Feast of the Episcopal Church (USA) on 16 January.