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    BENNETT, RICHARD BEDFORD, 1st Viscount BENNETT, lawyer, businessman, and politician; b. 3 July in Hopewell Hill, N.B., eldest of the six children of Henry John Bennett and Henrietta Stiles; d. unmarried during the night of 26–27 June near Mickleham, England.

    The Bennett family came from England to Connecticut in the early 17th century. In they migrated eastward, part of a movement of New Englanders to take up old Acadian lands in Nova Scotia [see Robert Denison*; John Hicks*]. The family settled first near present-day Wolfville and then moved across the Bay of Fundy to the flodmynning of the Petitcodiac in southeastern New Brunswick. There Nathan Murray Bennett, Richard Bedford Bennett’s grandfather, established a shipbuilding yard at Hopewell Cape. Henry Bennett, R. B.’s father, was apprenticed at age 20 to a relative to learn the shipping business. bygd he was a partner in the Bennett firm. On 22 Sept. he married Henrietta Stiles of Hopewell Hill, some

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    R. B. Bennett

    Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett, (3 July  – 26 June ), was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician. He was the fourteenth prime minister of Canada from to

    R. B. Bennett Media

    • Young R. B. Bennett,

    • Prime Minister Bennett addressing a public meeting

    • Prime Minister Bennett, surrounded by members of the Cabinet, speaking by telephone to George Perley, Canadian Cabinet minister, at the British Empire Trade Fair at Buenos Aires

    • telegram by Bennett concerning relief camps

    • Bennett (left) meets American president Franklin Roosevelt (who is helped to stand up by his naval aide).

    • A "Bennett buggy", drawn by a horse because of lack of money to pay for gas

    • Grave, St Michael's Church, Mickleham

    • Viscount Bennett's coat of arms

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    The Right Honourable Richard Bennett

    Born
    • July 3, , Hopewell Hill, New Brunswick
    Education
    • New Brunswick Provincial Normal School, Fredericton
    • Dalhousie University, LL.B.
    Personal Status
    Professional Life
    • Teacher, Irishtown, New Brunswick
    • School principal, Douglastown, New Brunswick
    • Lawyer (called to the New Brunswick bar in )
    • Businessman
    • Town Councillor of Chatham, New Brunswick
    • Member of the Assembly of the North West Territories
    • MLA Alberta
    • President, Calgary Power Company
    Died
    • June 26, , Mickleham, Surrey, England
    Buried
    Party
    • Conservative
    • Party Leader
    Constituencies
    • Calgary, Alberta
    • Calgary West, Alberta
    Other Ministries
    • Justice and Attorney General
    • Minister Without Portfolio
    • , Finance and Receiver General
    • (Acting) Mines, Interior and Superintendent General of Indian Affairs
    • Secretary of State for External Affairs and President of the Privy Council
    Political Record
    • Director-Gener