Peter Benenson (born Peter James Henry Solomon; 1921 – 2005). British barrister, human rights activist and the co-founder, in 1961, of the human rights group Amnesty International along with Seàn MacBride.
Benenson was born in London to a large Jewish family, the only son of British-born Harold Solomon and Russian-born Flora Benenson. His father, an army officer, died from a long-term injury when Benenson was nine, and he was privately tutored by W. H. Auden before attending Eton College. He took his mother's maiden name of Benenson acceding to his dying grandfather’s wishes, the Russian financier Grigori Benenson (1860–1939).
- "He was also inordinately modest (rejecting honours, save for belatedly accepting an honorary fellowship of his Oxford college, Balliol), as well as engagingly eccentric, with a twinkle in his eye and a crop of red hair." https://www.theguardian.com/.../dec/04/features.magazine97
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