Eijssens-Vickers Tree » Benjamin Hey (1869-1955)
Personal data Benjamin Hey
- He was born April 1869 in Ripponden, England.
- He died on March 4, 1955 in Wanganui, New Zealand, he was 85 years old.
- A child of Joseph Hey and Sarah Gawthrop
- This information was last updated on June 3, 2021.
Household of Benjamin Hey
He is married to Matilda Fielding.
They got married April 1893 at Halifax, England, he was 24 years old.
Child(ren):
- Thomas Hey 1894-1975
- William Ewart Hey 1898-1980
- Nora Hey 1900-1901
- Elsie Hey 1903-
- Lily Hey 1904-1907
- Edith Hey 1910-
- John Hey 1912-1967
Timeline Benjamin Hey
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Historical events
Day of death March 4, 1955
- The temperature on March 4, 1955 was between -2.7 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
- January 2 » Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered.
- April 3 » The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
- April 24 » The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
- May 5 » The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
- August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
- October 26 » Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
Same birth/death day
- 1948 » Antonin Artaud, French actor and director (b. 1896)
- 1949 » Clarence Kingsbury, English cyclist (b. 1882)
- 1952 » Charles Scott Sherrington, English neurophysiologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
- 1954 » Noel Gay, English composer and songwriter (b. 1898)
- 1960 » Herbert O'Conor, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Maryland (b. 1896)
- 1963 » William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1883)
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Keith Vickers, "Eijssens-Vickers Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/eijssens-vickers-tree/I154.php : accessed February 14, 2026), "Benjamin Hey (1869-1955)".