of Cowes, Isle of Wight
Jewellers
Benzie was founded by Simpson Benzie, Esq. in 1862. From the outset, Simpson Benzie maintained the “Benzie Ball” on top of the building. It was dropped at the stroke of 1200hrs. GMT and was for many years the chief time-keeper for the Royal Navy in the Eastern Solent
1916 Partnership change. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned, Marianne Benzie, Herbert Simpson Benzie, and Karl Teodore Benzie, all of Cowee, in the Isle of Wight"' and county of Hants, carrying on business as Jewellers, at Cowes aforesaid, under the style or firm of "BENZIE," has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen. All debts due to and owing 'by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said Herbert Simpson Benzie...'[1]