Career
Of his at least fourteen books, among the best known are Down Tops"l, Last Stronghold of Sail and Hervey Benham was editor of the Essex County Standard from 1943 - 1965. In 1964 he commenced production of the paper using web-offset lithography, a revolutionary printing process that he had pioneered with fellow newspaper proprietor Arnold Quick in Colchester, Essex. The Standard was described by the trade paper Printing World as Britain"s best produced weekly newspaper.
