Thomas Benyon

August 13, 1942

Benyon twice stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in Labour-held seats. In February 1974 he contested Huyton in Merseyside against the former (and future) Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. In the following election in October that year, he contested Wood Green in London but was again beaten, this time by the Labour incumbent Joyce Butler. However, in 1983, the seat was abolished in boundary changes - and Benyon has not been an Member of Parliament since. Tom and Olivia Jane Benyon, with James Pringle, Sue Gibbs, Clare Hayns, James Maberly and the Rev David Streater, founded Zimbabwe National Emergency (), a charity, in 2002. lieutenant was spearheaded by Tom Benyon after he met Cathy Olds whose husband Martin was hacked to death in Zimbabwe the previous year, in 2001, when their farm was occupied by Robert Mugabe loyalists.

Thomas Benyon

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Benyon was educated at Wellington School, Somerset from 1956 to 1960.

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Benyon twice stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in Labour-held seats. In February 1974 he contested Huyton in Merseyside against the former (and future) Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. In the following election in October that year, he contested Wood Green in London but was again beaten, this time by the Labour incumbent Joyce Butler.

However, in 1983, the seat was abolished in boundary changes - and Benyon has not been an Member of Parliament since.

Tom and Olivia Jane Benyon, with James Pringle, Sue Gibbs, Clare Hayns, James Maberly and the Rev David Streater, founded Zimbabwe National Emergency (), a charity, in 2002. lieutenant was spearheaded by Tom Benyon after he met Cathy Olds whose husband Martin was hacked to death in Zimbabwe the previous year, in 2001, when their farm was occupied by Robert Mugabe loyalists.

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Benyon was awarded the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of his "services to vulnerable people in Zimbabwe".

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48th United Kingdom Parliament.

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Officer of the Order of the British Empire