Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index John Williams Benn (1850-1922) was a British politician. He was a councillor in the first London County Council, and became Liberal member of Parliament for Wapping from 1891 to 1895, then for Deptford from 1897 to 1910. He was the father of William Wedgwood Benn and the grandfather of Tony Benn. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.