Benjamin Way

{{Short description|English politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2018}}

Benjamin Way (1740–1808) of Denham Place was an English politician, Member of Parliament for Bridport in 1765.{{cite book|author=Bernard Burke|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qmh2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1481|year=1871|publisher=Harrison|page=1481}}{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/way-benjamin-1740-1808|title=Way, Benjamin (1740-1808), of Denham Place, Bucks. History of Parliament Online|accessdate=21 August 2014}}

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.[https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=23&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27Way%27%29 Royal Society Database, Way, Benjamin (1740 - 1808)]s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Way, Benjamin (1)