Philip Benwell

Philip Gordon James Benwell is an advocate of Constitutional monarchy in Australia and has served as the National Chairman of the Australian Monarchist League since its founding in 1993. For his contribution to the Australian banking community Benwell was honoured on the 1976 Queen’s Birthday Honours list as a Member of the Order of the British Empire. In 1978 Benwell was charged on 19 warrants for embezzlement and false pretences allegedly committed between 1977 and 1978.

Benwell has promoted and argued in favour of the preservation of the Monarchy of Australia in various capacities including speaking at Conservative Constitution Committee and the Cross Benches of the House of Lords,