Benjamin Way
Benjamin Way of Denham Place was an English politician, Member of Parliament for Bridport in 1765.
The son of Lewis Way F.R.S., director of the South [Sea Company] by his third wife Abigail, he matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1758. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, elected 1771, and of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He acted as High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1777; was President of Guy's Hospital; and was Sub-Governor of the South Sea Company.
He was commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel and second in command of the Royal Buckinghamshire Militia (King's Own) in 1794, and was in command of the battalion at Chelmsford Barracks during the 'invasion summer' of 1805.