Sir Albert Bennett, 1st Baronet
Politician
1872 – 1945
Who was Sir Albert Bennett, 1st Baronet?
Sir Albert James Bennett, 1st Baronet JP was a politician in the United Kingdom who was elected both as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament and as a Conservative Party MP.
From 1914 to 1919, he was Controller of Propaganda, Central and South America.
As a Liberal, in 1918 he unsuccessfully contested the Chippenham constituency in Wiltshire. At the 1922 general election he stood in Mansfield, unseating the Labour MP William Carter. However, he lost the Mansfield seat at the 1923 general election, and in 1924 he was elected as a Conservative in the Nottingham Central seat. He was re-elected in 1929, but resigned from Parliament the following year.
On 31 July 1929, he was made a baronet, of Kirklington in the county of Nottinghamshire.
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