Godfrey Rathbone Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood (6 November 1864 – 3 February 1945), was an English author, academic, Liberal politician and philanthropist.
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, the much-acclaimed Abraham Lincoln (1916) and Theodore Roosevelt (1923), and a detective novel, Tracks in the Snow (1906), which was reviewed in The Bookman[1] He also wrote a useful look into early modern Biblical criticism trends, and presented his own viewpoints in According To Saint John, which he dedicated to George Ridding.
On 25 December 1934, Lord Charnwood gave a speech about the Holodomor (the famine in Ukraine) at the debates in British parliament.
His speech was based on the information he received from Theodor Innitzer, Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna, and British journalists William Henry Chamberlin and Malcolm Muggeridge.