Godfrey Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Godfrey Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood

British politician

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1864

Date of Death: 03-Feb-1945

Profession: politician, biographer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Godfrey Rathbone Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood (6 November 1864 – 3 February 1945) was an English author, academic, Liberal politician and philanthropist. Benson was born in Alresford, Hampshire, the fourth son of William Benson, a barrister, and Elizabeth Soulsby Smith.
The actor-manager Sir Frank Benson and the designer William Arthur Smith Benson were his brothers.
He was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford, graduating in 1887 with a First in literae humaniores, and would later become a Philosophy lecturer at Balliol.
He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1898. Benson was involved in Liberal politics and represented Woodstock in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1895, when he was defeated.
He then unsuccessfully stood in St.
Pancras West in 1900 and Worcestershire West in 1906.
He served as Mayor of Lichfield between 1909 and 1911.
In the latter year Benson was raised to the peerage as Baron Charnwood, of Castle Donington in the County of Leicester. Lord Charnwood was the author of many works, including two biographies, Abraham Lincoln (1916) and Theodore Roosevelt (1923).
He was also involved in charitable work with the deaf and disabled, becoming the first President of the National Institute for the Deaf from 1924 until 1935.