Godfrey Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Godfrey Rathbone Benson was an English author. He was born on 6 November 1864 in Alresford, Hampshire and studied at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford. He graduated in 1887, and later he would become a philosophy lecturer at Balliol. He was instituted into the House of Lords in 1911 and authored many works. These include Abraham Lincoln, which he published in 1916 as an accurate biography, and Theodore Roosevelt in 1923, another historical biography. He was a philanthropist and worked with the deaf and disabled. He died on 3 February 1945 in London.
