Background
Bennett was the son of Frederick C. Bennett and Annie (née Blaker), and educated at King Edward"s School, Birmingham, and the University of Birmingham.
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Peter Frederick Blaker Bennett
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Education
University of Birmingham.
Career
Bennett was chairman and managing director of Joseph Lucas Limited and also served as a Justice of the Peace for Sutton Coldfield. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1918, and knighted in 1940. He held the seat in the general elections of 1945, 1950 and 1951.
He served under Winston Churchill as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and National Service between 1951 and 1952.
On 1 July 1953 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Bennett of Edgbaston, of Sutton Coldfield in the County of Warwick.
Membership
37th United Kingdom Parliament. 38th United Kingdom Parliament. 39th United Kingdom Parliament.
40th United Kingdom Parliament]
Bennett was elected as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Birmingham Edgbaston at an unopposed by-election in December 1940 following the death of the sitting Member of Parliament, former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
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Political Party
Conservative Party