Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Living

Sex: F

Parents

Father: Living Mother: Living

Spouses and Children

1. Living Children: 1. Living

Living

Sex: F

Spouses and Children

1. Living

Caroline Nalder Stephens Bennett

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 29 Nov 1872 - Clifton, Gloucester, England ¹¹⁴ ^,710 ^,1944 Christening: Death: Cir 1946 - ( about age 74) ¹¹⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Census: Terra Nova house, 1891, Westbury-On-Trym, Bristol, Gloucester, England. Single at time of census.

Parents

Father: Charles Thomas Bennett ¹¹⁴ Mother: Jane Langrish Stephens ¹¹⁴ ^,710

Spouses and Children

1. Living Children: 1. Beatrice Mary Margaret Jewell 2. Vivian Maud Jewell

Charles Alfred Selwyn Bennett

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 2 Aug 1899 - Shoreham-By-Sea, Sussex, England ¹¹⁴ ^,710 ^,1946 Christening: 24 Dec 1906 - Ealing, Middlesex, England ¹⁹⁴⁷ Death: 15 Jun 1995 - Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States of America ( at age 95) ¹¹⁴ ^,710 Burial: Cause of Death: Old Age, general illness
Events
• Census: 24 Clifton Rd., South Norwood, S.E., 1911, Croydon, Surrey, England.
• Military: Pte., Royal Fusiliers; Regt. #37422 and GS/76899, After 1915, France. According to:
http://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Charles_Bennett
Following the death of his older brother Frederick in 1915, he enlisted underage and served with the Royal Fusiliers during the First World War, fighting on the Somme
.
• Occupation: Author of plays, screenplays, and teleplays, Cir 1995.

Parents

Father: Harold Kyrle Money Bellew ⁷¹⁰ Mother: Lillian Langrish Bennett ¹¹⁴

Spouses and Children

1. Living 2. *Betty Jo Riley ⁷¹⁰ Marriage: Feb 1947 - United States of America ¹⁹⁴³ ^,1947 Children: 1. Living

Notes
General:

011211 - According to Descendants of George Hutchings Family Tree:

Charles Alfred Selwyn Bennett - A prolific and famed author of plays, screenplays, and teleplays whose credits included Britain's "first talkee", eight "English Period" films directed by Alfred Hitchcock and three films directed by Cecil De Mille. In 1937 he was selected as England's most successful screenwriter. In 1995 he was awarded the Lifetime achievement award of the Writers Guild of America-West.

010115 From FTM website of Henry J. Belcher

b. Charles Alfred Selwyn Bennett, (b. 2 Aug 1899 Shoreham on Sea, d. 15 Jun 1995 Los Angeles) father unknown. A prolific and famed author of plays, screenplays, and teleplays whose credits included Britain's "first talkee", eight "English Period" films directed by Alfred Hitchcock and three films directed by Cecil De Mille. In 1937 he was selected as England's most successful screenwriter. In 1995 he was awarded the Lifetime achievement award of the Writers Guild of America-West. m.
1) 1930 Margaret "Maggie" Riddick; no issue;
2) 1947 Betty Jo Riley (b. 29 Nov.1922 St. Joseph MO, d. Aug 1984 Beverly Hills, CA) dau. of Walter Wesley Riley (b. 7 mar 1883 MO, d. Oct 1968 Inglewood CA) son of Cornelius Riley (possible birth 1857 Union Co, Monroe MO) and Lena Smith (b. 24 Jan 1889 Plattsburgh MO, d. Sep 1975 Santa Monica CA), dau of Daniel Smith of Plattsburgh MO).

Check http://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Charles_Bennett for a full description of his career in Hollywood.

Charles Harold Bennett

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 6 Nov 1865 ¹¹⁴ ^,710 Christening: Death: Cir 1939 - ( about age 74) ¹¹⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Charles Thomas Bennett ¹¹⁴ Mother: Jane Langrish Stephens ¹¹⁴ ^,710

Hon. Sir Charles James Fox Bennett JP

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 11 Jun 1793 - Shaftesbury, Dorset, England ⁵⁹⁵ Christening: 1 Sep 1793 - Shaftesbury, Dorset, England ¹⁹⁴⁸ Death: 5 Dec 1883 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 90) ⁵³¹ ^,595 ^,1949 Burial: 8 Dec 1883 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁵³¹ ^,1949 ^,1950 Cause of Death:
Events
• Immigration: Sent to Newfoundland as a clerk at age 15, Cir 1808, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Co-Owner with brother Thomas, C. F. Bennett and Company, foundary,, 1820, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. brewery, distillery.
• Election: Amalgamated Legislative Council, Between 1842 and 1848, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Court: Appointment of Justices of the Peace in the Northern District, 1843, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Court: Appointment of Justices of the Peace in the Southern District, 1843, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Election: Legislative Council, 1843, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Governor of Newfoundland Savings Bank and Auditor of Newfoundland, 1843, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Governor of Savings bank and Auditor of Newfoundland, 1843, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Election: MHA for St. Mary's-Placentia, Between 1850 and 1855, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Owner: Co-Partnership in Turks Head Mining Company and English Ridge Mining Company, 1856, Turks Head, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador. Two partners were Charles Fox Bennett and Frederick Gisbourne.

Frederick Gisbourne probably discovered the two copper deposits located at Turk's Head and English Ridge near Marysvale in Conception Bay. In 1856, he and Charles Bennett incorporated The Turk's Head Mining Company and The English Ridge Mining Company and brought out Cornish miners to work the orebodies. The partnership of the two men, however, was brief, as Bennett reneged on the agreement around 1858 because miners had managed to extract, from both mines, only 31 tons of ore in three years. (As we shall see, Gisbourne was not the last man to suffer from Bennett's unorthodox ways.) Gisbourne sold the ore in Britain for £400, a sum that could sustain neither him nor the mines; and early in 1859 he departed for the Middle East to lay a cable across the Red Sea.

.
• Interesting: Effectively campaigned against Newfoundland Joining Canada, 1864-1870, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Chapter 1.

He was an ardent anti-Confederate who had a great deal of personal baggage behind this position including a million acres of mineral rights that would revert to the new country if Confederation succeeded.
• Occupation: Co-owner of 1st copper mine in NL with Smith McKay, 1864, Tilt Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Premier/Prime Minister of Newfoundland, 1870, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Election: MHA for St. Mary's-Placentia, 1874, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Residence: Water St., Dec 1883, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Thomas Bennett ⁵⁹⁵ ^,710 Mother: Leah Rowbotham ⁵⁹⁵ ^,710

Spouses and Children

1. *Isabella Sheppard ⁵⁹⁵ Marriage: 11 Apr 1829 - Clifton, Gloucestershire, England ¹⁹⁵¹
Marriage Events
• Alt. Marriage: Cir 1829, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.

Notes
General:

011211 - From Dictionary of Canadian Biography: 1881-1890 (Volume XI) BENNETT, CHARLES JAMES FOX, merchant and politician; b. 11 June 1793 at Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, son of Thomas and Leah Bennett; m. 1829 Isabella Sheppard of Clifton (now part of Bristol), England; d. 5 Dec. 1883 at St John's, Nfld. That Charles James Fox Bennett's family had a connection with the West Country-Newfoundland trade is probable since he was sent to St John's in 1808, possibly as a clerk. Soon after the end of the Napoleonic wars he was in business on his own account in St John's and in the early 1820s formed a partnership with his elder brother Thomas*. The firm of C. F. Bennett and Company was engaged in the general trade of the colony, supplying planters (especially in St Mary's, Placentia, and Fortune bays), importing European merchandise, and exporting fish, usually on a commission basis. Unlike most Newfoundland trading firms, it seldom engaged in the seal-fishery, nor did it own many ships. The business prospered. By the mid 1820s the Bennetts owned a wharf and premises on Water St, and were becoming prominent citizens in St John's. Thomas represented the firm on the chamber of commerce though Charles was elected president in 1836. Since Charles had married into Bristol society - there was a branch of the firm in that city - it seems that he spent a portion of each year in England. The two brothers took part in the agitation for a representative constitution in Newfoundland in the 1820s, reflecting the views of most St John's merchants. In January 1833 Charles became an aide-de-camp to Governor Thomas John Cochrane*, in June 1834 a justice of the peace, and in the same year a road commissioner. In the 1830s the brothers distinguished themselves from most Newfoundland merchants of the period by diversifying their business interests with a brewery, a distillery, and a sawmill. In 1847 they established a foundry at Riverhead, St John's. They also built ships on their waterfront property. On his own account, Charles commissioned extensive mineral explorations along the island's coast, and in the 1840s opened a slate quarry at Bay Roberts for which he brought in 12 to 14 Welsh miners; he also brought in a Welsh mining captain to search for potential mining sites in Placentia, Fortune, and Conception bays. In addition Charles was interested in farming, and in 1841 he was a founding member of the Agricultural Society. He eventually acquired 160 or more acres of land to the south of St John's, where he established something of a model farm with his valuable imports of horses and horned cattle. All these activities reflect Charles Bennett's life-long conviction that Newfoundland had considerable economic potential in addition to its fisheries, a point of view that was regarded as visionary in the first half of the 19th century. His capital, however, came from the traditional Newfoundland trade and his diversification coincided with a prosperous period for his firm which, in the 1840s and 1850s, became deeply involved in the lucrative Spanish trade, exporting fish in Spanish bottoms. The prosperity enabled the Bennett firm to experiment in the whale-fishery and to survive serious financial loss when their premises at St John's and on the Isle of Valen (Placentia Bay) were destroyed by fire in 1846. Thomas Bennett gave up an active role in the firm in 1848. Charles Fox Bennett's political life began in 1842 when he announced his candidacy for St John's in the election to be held for the Amalgamated Legislature in December 1842. Governor Sir John Harvey*, however, felt that the more moderate Thomas would stand a better chance of winning a Catholic seat and, urging him to run, promised Charles a place on the Legislative Council. Charles joined the council in January 1843. In the same year he became a governor of the Savings Bank and in 1844 an auditor of accounts for the government. His role on the Legislative Council was not a prominent one. He was a member of the Conservative group and joined it in voting against John Kent*'s 1846 resolutions in favour of responsible government. With the return to a bicameral legislature in 1848, Bennett lost his seat on the Legislative Council, but was reappointed in 1850 when he also joined the Executive Council. In the tense political climate between 1850 and 1854, Bennett emerged as a leading and vocal Conservative who opposed the introduction of responsible government with an intensity which, an obituary noted, was deemed unreasonable even in the fevered atmosphere of that time. He was one of the most obdurate councillors in the debates over the redistribution of seats that was to accompany the introduction of responsible government. The debates produced a deadlock between council and assembly: the Liberal majority in the assembly, which had strong Catholic support, wished to double the existing number of assembly seats; the Conservatives considered this increase would give the Catholics an automatic majority and sought a redistribution that would ensure Protestants the edge or at least remove the chance of a Catholic predominance. Bennett argued that responsible government was unsuited to Newfoundland, not only because the colony was small and underdeveloped, but also because it would consolidate the Roman Catholic interests in the government. In February 1852 he told the Commercial Society of St John's that a change in the constitution would hand over power to the Roman Catholic bishop, thus jeopardizing Protestant, particularly Anglican, rights. For most of his life Bennett was active in the affairs of the Church of England in Newfoundland, and he was a keen supporter of Bishop Edward Feild*'s efforts to infuse the local church with Tractarian principles. He supported Feild's contention in the 1850s that Anglicans had a right to separate schools, and led a campaign in the Legislative Council with Bryan Robinson and Hugh William Hoyles for a subdivision of the Protestant educational grant among denominations, an issue as emotive as responsible government in that it split Methodists from Anglicans and further alienated Anglican low churchmen from their bishop. The political result was to drive non-Anglican Protestants and Roman Catholics into a tactical alliance in favour of responsible government; the Liberal party, led by Philip Francis Little*, was then able to present itself as non-sectarian. This development influenced the Colonial Office's decision in 1854 to grant responsible government to Newfoundland. The introduction of responsible government in the following year was a Liberal triumph and Bennett suffered for his outspoken conservatism. He lost his seat on the Legislative Council, though not without a struggle. He challenged Governor Charles Henry Darling*'s right to remove him from the council, claiming his own right to a seat under the new constitution; his opinion, however, was rejected by both Darling and the Colonial Office. In 1856 when Bennett's foundry and mill burned down, possibly as a result of arson, a mob tried to prevent the fire companies from reaching the blaze and succeeded in perforating the water hoses. The Liberals in 1858 turned the attention of the house to Bennett's prospecting activities, in particular to his receipt between 1851 and 1854 of mining rights, with minimal obligations, to over a million acres of land situated in Bay d'Espoir, Fortune Bay, and the Burin Peninsula. The lease was referred to the imperial law officers who reported that it was ultra vires. In 1860 Bennett agreed to surrender the lease within two years if he could select in return ten mining locations from the initial grant. The agreement, however, was not incorporated in a local statute until 1904. Bennett claimed that he was the victim of a "system of political and party persecution" which prevented him from forming a company, backed by English capital, to exploit minerals 'round within the lease area. Surveys and the trial shafts which had been started in the early 1840s had already cost him £20,000, and Bennett bore a lasting resentment against those who had thwarted his plans. He found compensation at Tilt Cove in Notre Dame Bay where in 1857 a rich deposit of copper ore had been discovered by Smith McKay, a Nova Scotia prospector. McKay and Bennett went into partnership, using the latter's capital, to open the Union Copper Mine which began production in 1864. It was the colony's first significant mining venture, and by 1868 was providing employment for between 700 and 800 persons. The dominant political issue of the 1860s in Newfoundland was confederation with the other British North American colonies. When the Quebec resolutions were published in St John's in December 1864, Bennett stood out as one of the most important opponents of the proposed scheme. In a series of letters to the press in 1864 and 1865, he set out his opinion that the colony had nothing to gain and much to lose in transferring control of its natural resources to Canadians who would inevitably raise taxes and thereby dislocate the traditional patterns of Newfoundland trade; he urged the opponents of confederation to organize themselves, raising the frightening prospect that in confederation Newfoundlanders would be drafted into a Canadian army and "leave their bones to bleach in a foreign land, in defence of the Canadian line of boundary." Although Bennett's opposition to confederation was shared by many Newfoundland merchants, he was the most outspoken and one of the few prepared to campaign actively against union. Bennett did not emerge immediately as a party leader, however, because much of his time was absorbed by his mining and business interests; he spent every winter and spring in England where his wife was living. In the fall of 1867 and again in 1868 he returned to his press campaigns against confederation, urging that the economic plight of the colony should not be used by the confederates to stampede it into union. He contended that Newfoundland had "a temporary but painful malady," and that it should wait for the cure which better times would bring. The confederates' position that union was the only remedy was unacceptable to him. If Newfoundland were wisely and economically administered, he argued, its fishing, mineral, and land resources would be ample to support its population. Still believing that responsible government was a mistake for Newfoundland, he went so far as to suggest that a return to crown colony status was preferable to confederation. It was agreed by all sides that the question of confederation should be settled by a general election. As the election of 1869 approached, a feeling permeated the community that the terms of union already under discussion would inevitably be endorsed. Bennett did not share this apathy. Having urged the opponents of confederation in November 1868 to organize themselves and apparently having extracted a promise from the Conservative premier, Frederic Bowker Terrington Carter*, that the election would not be held until the fall of 1869, Bennett left for England early in that year, sure that no effective campaigning would begin until the summer. It was clear by this time that he was emerging as the leader of a party against confederation. Wealthy, respected, and still energetic at the age of 76, Bennett put aside plans to retire to England and prepared to fight the move which he was convinced would ruin the colony (and, his opponents remarked, his industrial and mining interests). He returned to Newfoundland late in July with Walter Grieve, another wealthy anti-confederate merchant, and a 140-ton steamer in which to canvass the outports. He purchased control of the Morning Chronicle in St John's and began a vigorous, outspoken campaign, aided by the confident atmosphere resulting from the best fishing season for a decade. Bennett's party was a curious amalgamation of old enemies. He and a minority of Protestant merchants and professionals who were former supporters of the Conservative party found themselves allied with the Catholic Liberals, who were opposed to the extinction of the responsible government for which they had fought and who feared that Newfoundland might suffer under Canadian domination as Ireland had under English. The crusade against Carter's party and its pro-confederate platform gave Bennett's party a superficial unity, and its success was overwhelming. Playing on the ignorance and patriotism of rural voters, the anti-confederates won 21 of 30 seats. Bennett was elected for the Catholic district of Placentia-St Mary's, where his firm had once been active, and on 14 Feb. 1870 he became premier of Newfoundland. He did not hold a portfolio and did not take his salary as an assemblyman on principle. Patrick Kevin Devine states that Bennett's anti-confederate government was long remembered as "the best we ever had." Its success was probably due to the relative economic prosperity of these years, which enabled the government to reduce taxes slightly, avoid borrowing, and increase expenditure - unique achievements for a Newfoundland administration. In accordance with Bennett's personal interests, mining royalties were abolished and the grant to the geological survey increased. More money was allocated to roads and public works. The coastal steam service was improved and a direct service to England instituted. A police force, modelled on the Royal Irish Constabulary, was formed when the imperial garrison was withdrawn in 1870. In external relations, Bennett's government cooperated with the imperial government. It acquiesced in the Treaty of Washington in 1871 and proved reasonably constructive over the difficult French Shore issue. But when Bennett started a lead mine at Port au Port on the west coast, an area in which he had long been interested, the inevitable protests from France claiming a breach of the treaty soured relations between Newfoundland and Britain. The Colonial Office saw Bennett's decision to open the mine as a deliberate attempt to force its hand, and eventually made him close it. In general, the Bennett government was sensible and carefully progressive. Yet his party was composed of such disparate elements that any premier would have found it difficult to weld them into a coherent unit. A fine campaigner, Bennett was not a politician and found the task impossible. He was unable to establish a firm personal ascendancy in the party with the result that his following was inherently unstable and the government could not effectively counter opposition moves to undermine its position. Opposition to confederation was the only issue binding Bennett's party together. Realizing this, the Conservatives abandoned their advocacy of confederation about 1872, and concentrated on sectarian issues which would remove Bennett's Protestant support. They attacked his close relationship with Bishop Thomas Joseph Power* of St John's and his representing a Catholic district in the assembly. In the 1873 election Bennett could find no better platform than continued opposition to confederation; the Conservatives refused to take up the issue and instead accused him of selling out to the Roman Catholics. Furious, he launched a violent attack on the Orange order which played into his opponents' hands. He won the election with 17 anti-confederate seats against 13 Conservatives but almost immediately there were defections to the Conservative party. On 30 Jan. 1874 he resigned. Another election in the fall of 1874 gave Carter's Conservatives a clear majority. Bennett's party was reduced to 13 members from Catholic ridings in the house of 30. In effect, the anti-confederate party had reverted to the old Liberal party with Bennett as its aging, improbable, and titular leader. Bennett remained in the assembly until 1878, an increasingly isolated figure. The Liberals tended to look to Joseph Ignatius Little* for leadership, especially once it became clear that Bennett was the only member of the house opposed to the construction of a railway from St John's to Halls Bay. His attitude in this matter was similar to his opinion about responsible government: railways were desirable per se and he had supported the construction of lines in the Tilt Cove and Betty Cove districts by mine owners, but Newfoundland was not ready for major lines. With a good sense that went unheeded, he argued that the colony needed more roads instead of an expensive railway which was certain to be its financial ruin and the cause of unbearable taxation for its fishermen. In this railway he saw a step towards confederation with Canada. After 1878 Bennett's only political role was to make clear his opposition to the contract for the railway in 1881. He was fully occupied with his business affairs and with a lengthy lawsuit against his mining partner, Smith McKay. Bennett filed for a dissolution of partnership and the sale of the mine, claiming that McKay owed him £19,000. The final result was the latter's bankruptcy and Bennett's assumption of complete control over the Tilt Cove operation in July 1880. When Bennett died in 1883, control of C. F. Bennett and Company passed to his partner Thomas Smith, and to his brother Thomas' sons. Aggressive and outspoken, politically conservative but economically progressive, Bennett did much to shape Newfoundland's future. He was one of the first businessmen to invest significantly in local industries and was the pioneer of the colony's mining industry. Above all, it was his stubbornness and determination which prevented Newfoundland from joining Canada in 1869. His electoral victory decided that for the foreseeable future Newfoundland would remain independent. James K. Hiller PANL, GN 1/3A, 1850-74; GN 1/3B, 1855-58, 1868-74; GN 2/1, 32-69; GN 3/2, 1831-80. PRO, CO 194/68, 194/144, 194/154, 194/179-87. Supreme Court of Nfld. (St John's), Registry, Wills of C. J. F. Bennett, 1859, 1883. Bennettv. McKay (1874-84), 6 Nfld. R. 178, 241, 462. Bennettv. McKay (1884-96), 7 Nfld. R. 36, 44. Evening Telegram (St John's), 18, 21-24 March 1881; 6 Dec. 1883; 6 March 1900; 24 May 1904. Morning Chronicle (St John's), October-December 1867; October -December 1868; 31 July 1869. Newfoundlander, November 1827; 16 Dec. 1841; 19 Jan. 1843; 18 June, 30 July 1846; 2 Sept. 1847; 12 Jan. 1865. Public Ledger, December 1829; 4, 7 Nov. 1856; 30 Jan. 1857; 22 Feb. 1878. Royal Gazette (St John's), 15 Jan. 1833, June 1834, June 1835, June 1841, 11 Dec. 1883. Times and General Commercial Gazette (St John's), October-December 1867, October-December 1868. A. E. Chaulk, "The Chamber of Commerce . . . 1827-1837" (unpublished graduate paper, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, St John's, 1969). Devine, Ye olde St John's. Garfield Fizzard, "The Amalgamated Assembly of Newfoundland, 1841-1847" (ma thesis, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, 1963). J. P. Greene, "The influence of religion in the politics of Newfoundland, 1850-1861" (ma thesis, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, 1970). J. K. Hiller, "Confederation defeated: the Newfoundland election of 1869" (unpublished paper presented to the CHA, Quebec, 1976). Frederick Jones, "Bishop Feild, a study in politics and religion in nineteenth century Newfoundland" (phd thesis, Univ. of Cambridge, 1971). W. D. MacWhirter, "Apolitical history of Newfoundland, 1865-1874" (ma thesis, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, 1963). E. C. Moulton; "The political history of Newfoundland, 1861-1869" (ma thesis, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, 1960). Philip Tocque, Newfoundland: as it was, and as it is in 1877(Toronto, 1878). Wells, "Struggle for responsible government in Nfld."

090312 from NGB Ang Cath Bur Reg:

Charles Fox BENNETT Water Street Dec 5 1883 Dec 8 1883 90 yrs Born 1793 Shaftesbury, Dorset, son of Thomas & Leah. Anti-Confederate, businessman, mining entrepreneur & prime minister of NL. Married 1829 Bristol to Isabella Sheppard. He is buried at Forest Road Anglican Cemetery, St Johns. 280513 - From the Dictionary of Newfoundland and Labrador Biography:

BENNETT, CHARLES JAMES FOX (1793-1883). b Shaftesbury, England 11 June; brother of Thomas Bennett; established Bennett's Mill 1827?; member Amalgamated Assembly 1842-48; MLC 1850-55; MHA , Placentia-St Mary's 1869-75: Prime Minister 1870-74; d St. John's 5 Dec 1883. Bennett came to Newfoundland as a boy. By 1827 (and probably before) he had established a mill and eventually a foundry, brewery and distillery at Riverhead in the west end of St. John's, which became the largest single industrial establishment in the city. Bennett also had a shipyard in St. John's, was a principal shareholder in the Newfoundland Savings Bank in 1844 and had a general merchandise store on Water Street. Accordingly, he was also involved in public life. through appointments to the Amalgamated Assembly and later the Legislative Council, but was opposed to the granting of Responsible Government in 1855. A mob set fire to Bennett's Mill in 1856, apparently incensed at his stand on the Responsible Government. From 1855 Bennett was less involved in politics and devoted increasing time to mining promotions in Notre Dame Bay. In 1864 he and Smith McKay opened the Union Mine at Tilt Cove, the first major copper mine in Newfoundland. It may have been that his involvement with mining ventures propelled Bennett back into political life. In any case, during the I860s he emerged as chief spokesman for those elements in the country opposed to confederation with Canada, as proposed by Prime Minister Frederick B. T. Carter and Ambrose Shea. When an election on the Confederation issue was called in 1869, Bennett became leader of an Anti-confederate political party. He persuaded Carter to postpone the election to the fall and spent the summer sailing around the island, to bring the argument against union with Canada to the electorate. The Antis won 21 of 30 seats and Bennett himself led a ticket which trounced Shea and his running mates in predominantly Roman Catholic Placentia-St. Mary's, despite the fact that Bennett was a Protestant. He became Prime Minister early in 1870. at the age of 76. The Bennett administration has been generally regarded by historians as an able and progressive one, which had the benefit of being aided by a series of successful fisheries. However, in 1873 the government was re-elected by a margin of only three seats and fell soon after, when Thomas R. Bennett and Henry Renouf were appointed to government offices and Charles R. Duder crossed the floor to join Carter, who formed an administration and won a working majority in a general election in the fall of 1874. Bennett won re-election in Placentia-St. Mary's. but retired from politics soon after. MFH

Charles Thomas Bennett

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 19 Apr 1830 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹¹⁴ ^,710 Christening: 5 Jan 1831 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁹⁵² Death: 29 Jan 1900 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 69) ¹¹⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Census: Terra Nova house, 1891, Westbury-On-Trym, Bristol, Gloucester, England.
• Occupation: Newfoundland Merchant, 1891, Westbury-On-Trym, Bristol, Gloucester, England.

Parents

Father: Thomas Bennett Esq. Mother: Hannah Mckillop Hutchings ⁵¹¹

Spouses and Children

1. *Jane Langrish Stephens ¹¹⁴ ^,710 Marriage: 11 Apr 1861 - Bristol, Gloucestershire, England ¹⁹⁵³ Marriage Notes

Christ Church, Clifton

BENNETT - LANGRISH
Newfoundland Express May 11, 1861 (Saturday)
Marriage. - April 11, at Clifton Church, Charles Thomas Bennett, Esq., of Newfoundland and Bristol, to Jane Langrish, only daughter of Walter Stephens, Esq. of Cotham near Bristol, late of Bradport.

Children: 1. Lillian Langrish Bennett 2. Maud Hutchings Bennett 3. Charles Harold Bennett 4. Mary Bennett 5. Walter Hugh Mcbride Bennett 6. Percy Mckay Bennett 7. Caroline Nalder Stephens Bennett 8. Frank Sherratt Stephens Bennett 9. Beatrice Octavia Bennett 10. Ivor Vere Brettingham Bennett

Clara Rosina Bennett

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 10 Feb 1878 - Taratahi, Carterton, North Island, New Zealand ¹⁹⁵⁴ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Thomas Bennett ¹⁴ Mother: Maria Jarvis ¹⁴

Spouses and Children

1. *Thomas Peter Phelan ¹⁴ Marriage: 23 Dec 1903 - Wellington, New Zealand ¹⁴ Marriage Notes

Notes from David Steven:

St. Mark's Church witnesses John BRAMLEY and R A LEWIS; date shown as 17 December 1903 when daughter's birth registered. Registered Wellington 1903/5884.
Children: 1. Eileen Julia Phelan

Notes
General:

Notes from David Stevens:

Living Wellington when married. Age 26 when daughter born. Age 37 when husband died.

1905-06 Wellington East Electoral Roll at 21 Elizabeth Street; married.
1911 Wellington North Supplementary Roll at 7 Mowbray Street; married.

Edith Annie Gertrude Bennett

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1862 ¹¹⁴ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: William Henry Rennie Bennett ¹¹⁴ ^,710 Mother: Elizabeth Louisa Thomas ¹¹⁴

Edward Archibald Bennett

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 24 Feb 1834 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁷¹⁰ ^,1952 Christening: 25 Jul 1834 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁹⁵² Death: Bef 21 Feb 1865 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹¹⁴ ^,1955 Burial: 21 Feb 1865 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁹⁵⁵ Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Thomas Bennett Esq. Mother: Hannah Mckillop Hutchings ⁵¹¹

Spouses and Children

1. *Isabella ¹¹⁴ Marriage:

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