Alfredo Benavides Diez-Canseco
{{Short description|Peruvian diplomat}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Alfredo Benavides Diez-Canseco
| image =
| caption =
| office = Minister of Navy and Aviation
| term_start = {{dts|1931|12|08}}
| term_end = {{dts|1933|05|02}}
| president = Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro
| predecessor = {{ill|Federico Díaz Dulanto|es}}
| successor = Luis A. Flores
| office2 = Minister Plenipotentiary of Peru to the United Kingdom
| term_start2 = {{dts|1933}}
| term_end2 = {{dts|1942}}
| president2 = Óscar R. Benavides
| predecessor2 = Óscar R. Benavides
| successor2 =
| office3 = Ambassador of Peru to Canada
| term_start3 = {{dts|1944}}
| term_end3 = {{dts|1949}}
| president3 = Position established
| successor3 =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|03|30}}
| birth_place = Lima, Peru
| death_date = 1967
| death_place = Lima, Peru
| alma_mater = Colegio de la Inmaculada
Guadalupe College
| occupation = Athlete, diplomat
}}
Alfredo Benavides Diez-Canseco (Lima; {{dts|1881|03|30}} — 1967) was a Peruvian diplomat and sportsman. He was the president of the first sports institution in Peru,{{Cite thesis |title=CENTRO ADMINISTRATIVO DEL DEPORTE OLÍMPICO DEL PERÚ |last=Rigel Gómez Lavi |first=Carlos Arnulfo |publisher=Universidad Ricardo Palma |url=https://repositorio.urp.edu.pe/bitstream/handle/20.500.14138/865/arnulfo_a.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |language=es |page=17}} and of the Lima Jockey Club (inaugurating the Santa Beatriz Hippodrome under his tenure),{{Cite web |url=https://hipodromodemonterrico.com.pe/monterrico/historia |title=La Hípica en Lima |website=Hipódromo de Monterrico |last=Young Bazo |first=Jorge L. |orig-date=December 1960}} and one of the founders of the Club Terrazas in Miraflores.{{Cite web |url=http://www.clubterrazas.com.pe/club/historia/ |title=Conoce nuestra historia |website=Club Terrazas}}
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.{{Cite book |title=Peruvians of To-day |last=Belmont Parker |first=William |publisher=The Hispanic Society of America |year=1919 |location=New York |pages=489–490 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GK4AAAAAMAAJ}} He also served as representative of Peru to the United Kingdom and the first ambassador of Peru to Canada.{{Cite book |title=The Annual Register |year=1945 |pages=1150 |url=https://www66.statcan.gc.ca/eng/1945/194512341150_p.%201150.pdf}} He was a brother-in-law of his distant cousin, Óscar R. Benavides.{{Cite book |title=Historia de la corrupción en el Perú: Tercera edición con entrevista a Gustavo Gorriti |last=Quiroz |first=Alfonso |publisher=Instituto de Estudios Peruanos |year=2019 |isbn=9789972517624 |pages=258 |language=es |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pcikDwAAQBAJ}}
He later served as head of various sports institutions, such as the Lima Jockey Club, and the Club Terrazas in Miraflores.