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Merchant. Born circa 1800. Had at least eight children: Matilda (b. 1823), George (b. 1826), Charles Edmund (b. 1828), Elizabeth Anne (b. 1830), Alfred Buscombe (b. 1831), Frederick William (b. 1833) and Arthur (b. 1835). Benjamin Guy evidently ran a store in Goulburn Street, Hobart, in 1825:
"On Saturday evening last [25th June 1825], three depredators entered the store of Mr. B. Guy, in Goulburn-street, with their faces blackened, and after stabbing him with some sharp instrument in the forehead, received an alarm which induced them to decamp empty handed."1
Guy had stores in Collins Street opposite the Ship Hotel in December 1825.2 In 1833, Guy was described as a "dealer', of Elizabeth street, Hobart.
Guy purchased 15 acres of land at Richmond from Francis Smith and John Hunt Butcher on 12th August 1833 for £165.3 The land was bound on the north by David Lord, William Gunn on the east, Buscombe on the west and Butcher to the south. This land was later augmented by additional purchases and Guy built the Belmont house on the property. Benjamin Guy purchased Thomas Allen Lascelles' 3-acre land grant on the Coal River for £35 at auction in 1835. The land was conveyed to Guy on 28th July 1835.4 Guy was a juror in the trial where George Meredith was sued by Charles Schaw for libel.
Guy advertised Belmont, with 40 acres of ground, for lease in April 1840, as he was "intending to visit Europe in the ensuing Spring." Died 31st January 1856 aged 56 years and buried in St. Luke's Cemetery, Richmond.
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1 Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser, 1 July 1825, p.3, c.2.
2 Colonial Times, 9 December 1825, p.1, c.3.
3 Land and Titles Office 1/2579 12 August 1833.
4 Land and Titles Office 1/1784 28 July 1835.
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