Sir Albert James Bennett, 1st Baronet JP (17 September 1872 – 14 December 1945) was a politician in the

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who was elected both as a

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Member of Parliament (MP) and as a Conservative Party MP.

Biography

From 1914 to 1919, he was Controller of

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, Central and South America. As a Liberal, in

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he unsuccessfully contested the

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constituency in

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. At the 1922 general election he stood in

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, unseating the Labour MP William Carter. However, he lost the Mansfield seat at the 1923 general election, and in

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he was elected as a Conservative in the

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seat. He was re-elected in

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, but resigned from Parliament the following year following bankruptcy. He took possession of Kirklington Hall, Nottinghamshire, in 1920. On 31 July 1929, he was made a

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, of Kirklington in the county of Nottinghamshire.

Family

In 1896 he married Caroline Carleton Backus, daughter of American brewing magnate Jacob Backus, by whom he had two sons and one daughter; the eldest son, Charles, inherited the baronetcy. A barrister and Metropolitan Police Court Magistrate, he served in the

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in both

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and

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, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the

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. Caroline and Albert were divorced in 1938, and Albert remarried in May to Leopoldine Armata. They had one son, Peter Bennett, born on 18 August 1938. Sir Albert died in 1945, aged 73.

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