Stanford, John Montague Benett- (1870–1947), cinematographer and landowner, was born at the family estate of Pythouse, West Tisbury, Wiltshire, on 5 February 1870, the only legitimate son of Vere Fane Benett-Stanford (1839–1894), landowner and Conservative MP for Shaftesbury (1873–80), and his wife, Ellen (...