Francis (Frank) Wilfred Darley Bentley

Abt 1866 -

• Name	Francis (Frank) Wilfred Darley Bentley
  Birth	Abt 1866	Sunbury, Middlesex
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Stockbroker
  Death	Y
  Person ID	I422	Ash Family Database
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2025

  
  

  Family	Katherine Ann (Kate) Kelman,   b. 27 Dec 1863, 220 Union Street, Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland d. 1958 (Age 94 years)
  Marriage	31 Oct 1903	Trinity Church, Hampstead
  	The archivist at Dean Close School in Cheltenham has confirmed that Walter Darling Topping gave his home address at the start of the 3rd Term of 1904 as 29 Belsize Crescent, Hampstead and his mother's name as Mrs K A Darley-Bentley. Katherine must therefore have remarried before her son's arrival in Cheltenham.
  Family ID	F174	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Frank Darley-Bentley is believed to have discovered gold in Colombia and to have returned to London to ask his brother, a stock broker like their father, for funds to exploit his find, possibly in South America. It is believed that the company which he set up to pursue this venture went broke and that he was "hammered off" the Stock Exchange. There is a notice in the Edinburgh Gazette, 21 April 1896, copied from the London Gazette, of the bankruptcy of Frank Darley Bentley. He is not present on the Census records for England for 1891 or 1901. On the certificate of his marriage to his second wife in October 1903. he is shown as a stockbroker. What isn’t apparent on that certificate is that only 17 days prior to marrying Katherine, his divorce from his first wife (for adultery) had been finalised.