Benny Rothman

Bernard "Benny" Rothman (1 June 1911 – 23 January 2002) was a British political activist. He is known for organizing the mass trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932, which led to the establishment of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949.

Biography Rothman was born in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, into a Jewish family from Romania, who arrived to Britain in the early 1900s.

Rothman ran for the council of the Municipal Borough of Altrincham as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain in the elections of 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, and 1970. He received only a minimal number of votes.

In 1979, he campaigned against the Tory countryside legislation, led by Margaret Thatcher.