Reginald Bennett

Who was Reginald Bennett?

Sir Reginald Frederick Brittain Bennett was an English Conservative Party politician, international yachtsman, doctor, psychiatrist and painter.

Bennett was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford and served in the RNVR 1934-46. He was a helmsman of Shamrock V 1934-35 and was in the British America's Cup team in 1949 and 1953.

Bennett contested Woolwich West in 1945. He was Member of Parliament for Gosport and Fareham from 1950 to 1974, and after boundary changes, for Fareham from 1974 to 1979. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Iain Macleod 1956-63 and chaired the parliamentary scientific committee 1959-62.