Rex Benson

For the American songwriter, see Rex Benson (songwriter). Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Reginald Lindsay Benson, DSO, MVO, MC (20 August 1889 – 26 September 1968), known as Rex Benson, was an English merchant banker and army officer. Early life and family He was born in Mayfair, the son of the merchant banker and art collector Robert Henry Benson and his wife Evelyn Mary, daughter of the art collector and politician Robert Stayner Holford. After attending Ludgrove School and Eton (where he was captain of cricket and president of Pop), he went up to Balliol College, Oxford, but left after a year in 1909 to become a soldier with the Life Guards. He was the older brother of Constantine Evelyn Benson CBE DSO.