Edward Benthall

Sir Edward Charles Benthall, KCSI (26 November 1893 – 5 March 1961), also known as Tom Benthall, was a British businessman and public servant who spent the majority of his career in British India.

He was described in an obituary in The Times as "perhaps the foremost figure in his day of the British mercantile community in India.

He joined the White Star Line at its Liverpool office in 1913, then went to India at the outbreak of the First World War, enlisting and serving in India in 1914–15 and Mesopotamia in 1916–18, where he was wounded.

He was then transferred to the War Office staff, where he served in 1918–19.

He was a director of the Imperial Bank of India from 1926 to 1934, and was its governor from 1928 to 1930.