Benjamin George Holdsworth CIE (31 July 1892 – 24 February 1943) was an Indian civil servant and administrator who served as the Diwan of Pudukkottai state from 1931 to 1933.
He had his education at Bristol Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford and entered the Indian Civil Service in 1919.
[5] In 1942, Holdsworth was appointed Secretary to the Indian Food Department and served until his death.
Holdsworth died on 24 February 1943 at the age of fifty-one, following complications from a tooth infection; there was a shortage of penicillin due to supplies being redirected for the war effort.
The couple had one son, Peter, who rose to the rank of Brigadier in the British Army, and one daughter, Pamela.