Ralph Benson (1773 â 23 October 1845) was a British politician.
Benson was one the first mixed-race Members of Parliament of the Parliament of Great Britain. His father Moses Benson was a British West Indies merchant who was involved in the Liverpool slave trade. His mother Judith Powell was a freed slave. She was classified as mulatto and was the mother of Moses Bensons four children. He sat for the constituency of Stafford.