Alfredo Benavides Diez Canseco

Alfredo Benavides Diez-Canseco (Lima; — 1967) was a Peruvian diplomat and sportsman. He was the president of the first sports institution in Peru, and of the Lima Jockey Club (inaugurating the Santa Beatriz Hippodrome under his tenure), and one of the founders of the Club Terrazas in Miraflores.

Biography He was born in 1881 to parents Alfredo Benavides and María Diez Canseco. He studied at the Jesuit School and the College of Our Lady of Guadalupe, beginning his diplomatic career in 1905 as part of the Legation in the United States. In 1907, he was transferred to the Consulate in Antwerp where he served as Chancellor, and later to the Consulate in Le Havre, being promoted to Consul in 1909. He was moved to Bourdeaux the same year and to Bremen in 1911. In 1913 he was appointed provisional Chief of the Consular Division of the Foreign Ministry. He also served as representative of Peru to the United Kingdom and the first ambassador of Peru to Canada. He was a brother-in-law of his distant cousin, Óscar R. Benavides.

He later served as head of various sports institutions, such as the Lima Jockey Club, and the Club Terrazas in Miraflores.