Reginald Bennett
Sir Reginald Frederick Brittain Bennett (b Sheffield[1] 22 July 1911 – d London 19 December 2000) was an English Conservative Party politician, international yachtsman, psychiatrist and painter.[2]
Education
Bennett was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford.[3]
Military Service
He was in the RNVR from 1934 to 1946.
Personal life
Bennett married Henrietta Crane in 1947:[4] they had one son and three daughters.[5]
Sporting achievements
He was a helmsman of Shamrock V 1934-35 and was in the British America's Cup team in 1949 and 1953.[6]
Political career
Bennett contested Woolwich West in 1945. He was Member of Parliament for Gosport and Fareham from 1950 to[7] 1974, and after boundary changes, for Fareham from 1974 to 1979.[8] He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Iain Macleod 1956–63 and chaired the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee 1959–62. He was also chairman of the catering committee.[9]
References
- Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
Offices held
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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New constituency | Member of Parliament for Gosport & Fareham 1950 – February 1974 |
Constituency abolished |
New constituency | Member of Parliament for Fareham February 1974 – 1979 |
Succeeded by Peter Lloyd |
Notes
- ↑ thePeerage.com
- ↑ John Barnes, Historian
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ Marriages. The Times (London, England), Friday, Sep 12, 1947; pg. 7; Issue 50864
- ↑ [‘BENNETT, Sir Reginald (Frederick Brittain)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 13 June 2017
- ↑ Sir Reginald Bennett. The Times (London, England), Friday, January 05, 2001; pg. 23; Issue 67028
- ↑ PARLIAMENT The Times (London, England), Thursday, Apr 19, 1951; pg. 7; Issue 51979
- ↑ ‘BENNETT, Sir Reginald (Frederick Brittain)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 13 June 2017
- ↑ Telegraph obituary