Born c.1835. The 1871 and 1891 Censuses record that he was born in Lambeth, Surrey.
Enlisted at London on the 25th of November 1854.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: None shown.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.
Sent money from the Crimea to a Sarah Horton (relationship not shown).
"Deserted" from Hounslow on the 13th of October 1857.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.
[RM: EJB could find no further trace to 1865, but an internet search in 2013 located an article in The Leeds Times, 8th December 1900, in which it is stated that Benjamin Horton, 17th Lancers [sic], had just died, aged 75, in the Wolverhampton Workhouse, where he had been an inmate "for the last ten years".]
1871 Census
52, Church Street, Waggon Yard, Oldbury.
Benjamin Horton, Lodger, 41, Labourer, born Lambeth, Surrey.
Lodging with 26 other men.
1891 Census
Wolverhampton Union Workhouse, Bilston Road, Wolverhampton.
Benjamin Horton, Pauper, 65, Widower, Butcher, born Lambeth.
James Mead, 63, was Master of Workhouse.
Death registered
Benjamin Horton, aged 74, December Quarter 1900, Wolverhampton.
The Wolverhampton Workhouse: There is a considerable amount of information, and a number of maps and pictures, about this workhouse (and many others) here...
Death registration, and Census information for 1871 and 1891, kindly provided by Chris Poole.