Samuel Levy Bensusan (29 September 1872 – 11 December 1958)[1] was a British author, musician, traveller, playwright, recorder of declining Essex dialects, and expert on country matters. He was born in Dulwich and died aged 86 at Hastings, and was the son of a Jewish feather merchant, Jacob Samuel Levy Bensusan (1846–1917) and Miriam Bensusan (1848–1926).