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Arthur Christopher Benson FRSL (24 April 1862 - 17 June 1925) was an English essayist poet author and academic and the 28th Master of Magdalene College Cambridge. He is noted for having written the words of the song Land of Hope and Glory. From 1885 to 1903 he taught at Eton but returned to Cambridge in 1904 as a Fellow of Magdalene College to lecture in English Literature. He became president of the college (the Master's deputy) in 1912 and he was Master of Magdalene (head of the college) from December 1915 until his death in 1925. From 1906 he was a governor of Gresham's School.