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British politician and activist
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Male
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Birth:
3 May 1889
Death:
17 August 1973
The details
Biography
Introduction
George Benson (3 May 1889 – 17 August 1973) was a British Labour Party politician.
The son of T. D. Benson, Treasurer of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), George was educated at Manchester Grammar School, Manchester, and became a clerk in an estate office. During the First World War he was imprisoned as a conscientious objector. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Chesterfield from 1929 to 1931 and from 1935 to 1964.
Benson was an author on financial matters and of a book on the history of socialism. He was chairman of the Howard League for Penal Reform and a member of the Home Office Advisory Council on delinquency.
Death
He died in Surrey in 1973, aged 83.