Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine (1809 – 1891) was at various times the Administrator of Natal, the Gold Coast, Antigua, the Leeward Islands and Western Australia.

Born in 1809 in London, Benjamin Pine was educated in Brighton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a career officer in the British Colonial Service. From 1850 to 1855, he was Lieutenant-Governor of Natal Colony, and from March 1857 until 17 April 1858 was Governor of the Gold Coast.

On 30 July 1868, Pine was appointed by letters patent to the position of Governor of Western Australia. Shortly afterwards, however, a vacancy occurred for the position of Governor of the Leeward Islands, and it was decided that he should fill that position instead. He never arrived in Western Australia, and six months passed before the colony received news that he would not be coming.

Pine served as Governor of the Leeward Islands from 1869 until 1871. His title then became Governor of Antigua until 1873, but the Leeward Islands continued under his governorship. He died in 1891.

There is also a Primary school called Benjamin Pine Primary School named after him in Pinetown as well as the Pinetown High Schools (Boys and Girls) Honoring his name by the Pine Cones on the Badges.

The city of Pinetown, in modern day KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is named after him.

Pinetown was established in 1850 along the main wagon route between Durban and Pietermaritzburg, springing up around what was then the Wayside Hotel. The small town was named after Sir Benjamin Pine who was the governor of Natal. Pinetown was for a time the home of Lord Baden Powell, founder of the Scout Movement. His original house is preserved there.

The Pinetown Cricket Club, was established in 1873, and is believed to be the oldest in Kwa-Zulu Natal and one of the oldest in South Africa.

                              Pinetown Cricket Club, Lahee Park

                                        Cricket Club Emblem

Housed in the architectural award-winning library building opened in 1982, the Pinetown Museum is situated in the CBD. It has an excellent display of multicultural artifacts and photographs relating to Pinetown, from archeological times to present. An 1860 altar from Mariannhill Mission and a modern fabric wall hanging, compliment the model of Pinetown and its historic buildings. Admission is free.

Fort Funk was created by erecting earth embankments around the Wayside Inn by Archibald Murray, who was known as the founding father of Pinetown. The Fort with its well could safely house the people of Pinetown and New Germany. The Fort Funk caused much laughter when no attack came. Weathering destroyed the earthworks, but it is commemorated by a gun barrel and plaque.

After World War I, a portion of the central Market Square was given as a memorial park for the sons of Pinetown who were killed. A sandstone memorial was erected and maintained by the community of Pinetown. Additional names of those killed in WWII were added, with annual Remembrance Day celebrations held in Pinetown MOTHS (Memorable Order of Tin Hats). A horizontal slab commemorates the names of young Pinetown boys killed in the so-called Border War of the 1970s and 1980s.

The old fig tree (Ficus Natalensis) which stands tall on Old Main Road was brought from the Mlazi River as a whip by W Wright in 1897. It now stands as a magnificent huge tree.

The stumps and bails on the commonage between the Pinetown Civic Centre and the library alongside Old Main Road commemorate the founding of the Pinetown Cricket Club in 1878, when the first match was played here. It was subsequently renamed the Pinetown Cricket and Football Club in July 1882. Matches were played on the Old Main Road until the advent of motor vehicles, when they were moved to Anderson Sports fields in 1920s.