John Benbow (1768–24 February 1855) was a Conservative politician who represented Dudley in the UK Parliament in the nineteenth century.
In 1833, Benbow was appointed as joint executor and trustee of the estates of the late John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley.
Subsequently, when the sitting MP for Dudley, Thomas Hawkes resigned his seat in 1844, John Benbow, then a solicitor with the London firm, Messrs Benbow and Tucker, stood and won the election as a Conservative candidate.
[3] According to local chronicler C.F.G Clarke: Mr. Benbow was a decided Tory in politics, and a churchman in religion; his school of thought was narrow and contracted, and he looked upon all reforms and progressions with alarm and distrust.
[6] John Benbow died on 24 February 1855, at Hastings,[7] whilst still MP for Dudley, triggering a by-election that was won by Sir Stafford Northcote.