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Benedict George Hoskyns (23 February 1856 – 11 September 1935) was an Anglican priest in the first third of the 20th century. He was born on 23 February 1856 into an ennobled family: his father was Canon Sir John Leigh Hoskyns, 9th Bart. He was educated at Bradfield, Haileybury and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1878. He rowed in the 1877 Boat Race, notable for being the only dead heat in the race's history. His grandson, Sir John Leigh Austin Hungerford Hoskyns was head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from 1979 until 1982.