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EARLY YEARS The second son of Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett, Knt.,(d.1947) of Cwmllecoediog, Aberangell, Machynlleth, Wales, by his wife Marguerite (née Kleinwort), Frederic was educated at Westminster School , and Lincoln's Inn , and was called to the English Bar in November 1946. He subsequently served as an Advocate in the High Court of Southern Rhodesia from March 1947. However, from 1947 - 1949 he was an Official Observer in the Greek Communist War, becoming diplomatic correspondent for the Birmingham Post newspaper, 1950 1952. Later a director in various financial and industrial institutions in the United Kingdom and overseas, he was also a Lloyd's Underwriter. He married in 1945, Marion Patricia, daughter of Major Cecil Burnham, OBE, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh). MILITARY In 1939 Frederic Bennett enlisted in the Middlesex Yeomanry . He was commissioned as an officer into the Royal Artillery in 1940; commended for gallantry in 1941; was Military Experimental Officer in the Petroleum Warfare Dept, 1943-1946, when released to reserve with the permanent rank of Major. POLITICAL CAREER Bennett contested the parliamentary seat of Burslem , Staffordshire in 1945, and Birmingham Ladywood in 1950. Successful the following year he was the Conservative Party (UK) MP for Reading North from October 1951 - May 1955. In December 1955 he was elected MP for Torquay where he seved until 1974. He was then MP for Torbay , 1974 - 1987. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Reginald Maudling from 1953 - 1955; to the Minister of Supply 1956-1957; the the Paymaster-General 1957-1959; to the President of the Board of trade, 1959-1961, He was Leader of the UK Delegation, and Chairman of the Council Of Europe and Western European Union Assemblies, 1979-1987. He was also sometime chairman of the European Democratic Political Group of the Council of Europe. OTHER INTERESTS Frederic Bennett had wide-ranging interests: he was a member of The Primrose League , and their Guest-of-Honour at a dinner held on 5 March 1979 in the Cholmondely Room, House Of Lords , hosted by The Lord Mowbray and Stourton. He was sometime President of the Anglo-Turkish Society - he had a Honourary Doctorate of Law from the University Of Istanbul , 1984, and was granted the Freedom of the City of Ankara in 1992. He was a member of the Anglo-Polish Society, the Council Of The Baltic Sea States , the Estonian Association, the Anglo-Jordanian Society, the Pakistan Society, and was a Vice-President of the European-Atlantic Group . In 1984 he was made a Freeman Of The City Of London . He was the reciprient of a small catalogue of foreign honours and awards of merit. He had a home in St.David's, Bermuda , but his principal residence was his father's estate in Wales. He died between 2001 - 2003. PUBLICATIONS
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