- Good friend of Saffron Burrows.
- He was the last surviving MP to have been elected during the reign of King George VI (December 11, 1936 - February 6, 1952). He was first elected to Parliament in the Bristol South East by-election on November 30, 1950.
- He was the first British Member of Parliament to table a motion condemning Apartheid in South Africa.
- Educated at Westminster School and later New College, Oxford, where he studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
- His younger brother David Julian Wedgwood Benn (Greenock, Renfrewshire, UK 28 December 1928- 2 February 2017 UK) was a broadcaster, writer and Eastern Europe specialist.
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