1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gosport and Fareham Constituency – Biography of Bennett

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gosport and Fareham

CANDIDATE : Bennett

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. F. B. Bennett was born in 1911 and was educated at Winchester and Oxford and St. George’s Hospital, London. He served in the war as surgeon lieutenant – commander, and was twice torpedoed, and later became a doctor in the Fleet Air Arm and served in Tanganyika and Ceylon. A well-known yachtsman, he was for two seasons helmsman of Shamrock V, and in 1949 he was a member of the British team which competed for the British-America Cup.

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