BENEDICT, SIR JULIUS (1804-1885), musician, was born at Stuttgart, the son of a Jewish banker, Nov. 27, 1804, and died in London June 5, 1885. He studied under Hummel and Weber at Dresden, and by the latter's influence received an appointment in Vienna in 1823. He then spent some years in Italy, conducting and writing, and finally went, at the suggestion of Malibran, to London in 1835. He became a naturalized Englishman, and, settling in London, was a familiar figure in English musical life for 5o years. In 1838 he became conductor of the English opera at Drury Lane during the period of Balfe's great popularity. In 1852 he became musical conductor under Mapleson's management at Her Majesty's theatre (and after wards at Drury Lane), and in the same year conductor of the Harmonic Union. His best-known opera—one of a large number —The Lily of Killarney, written on the subject of Dion Bouci cault's play Colleen Bawn to a libretto by Oxenford, was pro duced at Covent Garden in 1862. Benedict conducted every Norwich festival from 1845 to 1878 inclusive, and the Liverpool Philharmonic Society's concerts from 1876 to 1880. He was knighted in 1871. He died in London June 5, 1885.