Person    | Male  Born 14/11/1947  Died 26/3/1975

Jeffrey Benton

Categories: Tragedy

Jeffrey Benton

Jeffrey David Benton was born on 14 November 1947, the eldest child of Alan David Benton (1918-2005) and Thelma D. Benton née Alder (b.1923). His birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1947 in the Wood Green registration district and his father was a tailor's cutter.

Electoral registers between 1948 and 1965 show his parents living at 87 Stapleton Hall Road, Stroud Green, London, N4 4RH. He had a younger brother, Keith R. Benton (b.1950) and two younger sisters, Ann Louise Benton (b.1963) and Sarah Jane Benton (b.1966).

In 1972 he married Valerie M. Grimes (b.1953) in Enfield and telephone directories from 1972 listed him at 66 Woodfield Drive, East Barnet, Barnet, EN4 8PB. He was a 'jobber' at the London Stock Exchange.

He died, aged 27 years, on 26 March 1975 as a result of injuries he received in the Moorgate tube disaster on 28 February 1975 and his death was registered in the Stepney registration district. Probate records confirm his home address as 66 Woodfield Drive, East Barnet and that when administration of his estate was granted on 2 July 1975 his effects totalled £24,001.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Jeffrey Benton

Commemorated ati

Moorgate tube disaster - Finsbury Square

The motivating force behind this memorial, the first to the tragedy, erected ...

Read More

Other Subjects

Delroy Manning

Delroy Manning

Plasterer killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 39. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Delroy Oliver Manning was born on 14 January 1960 in Jamaica, West Indies. In M...

Person, Tragedy, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
Lucy Parsons

Lucy Parsons

Labour organizer, anarchist communist. Born Texas or Virginia, as Lucy Eldine Gonzalez, possibly to slaves and had a mixed ancestry. Married Albert Parsons, a white socialist and this interracial m...

Person, Politics & Administration, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial
Unnamed cyclist

Unnamed cyclist

About this death the papers reported: "A cyclist was almost twice over the legal limit for drink-driving when he rode off the pavement into the path of an oncoming bus after celebrating his 21st bi...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial

Previously viewed

EMI Archive Trust

EMI Archive Trust

From their website: "The EMI Archive Trust was established in 1996. The EMI Group of companies gifted much of their assets which originated before 1947 to the Trust. The purpose of the Trust is “th...

Group, History, Music / songs

1 memorial