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BENNETT, CHARLES JAMES FOX - Dictionary of Canadian Biography
- Charles James Fox Bennett (11 June in Shaftesbury, England – 5 December ) was a merchant and politician who successfully fought attempts to take Newfoundland into Canadian confederation.
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- Charles James Fox Bennett, merchant, politician, premier of Newfoundland (b at Shaftesbury, Eng 11 June ; d at St John's 5 Dec ).
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BENNETT, CHARLES JAMES FOX, merchant and politician; b. 11 June 1793 at Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, son of Thomas and Leah Bennett; m. 1829 Isabella Sheppard of Clifton (now part of Bristol), England; d. 5 Dec. 1883 at St John’s, Nfld.
That Charles James Fox Bennett’s family had a connection with the West Country–Newfoundland trade is probable since he was sent to St John’s in 1808, possibly as a clerk. Soon after the end of the Napoleonic wars he was in business on his own account in St John’s and in the early 1820s formed a partnership with his elder brother Thomas*. The firm of C. F. Bennett and Company was engaged in the general trade of the colony, supplying planters (especially in St Mary’s, Placentia, and Fortune bays), importing European merchandise, and exporting fish, usually on a commission basis. Unlike most Newfoundland trading firms, it seldom engaged in the seal-fishery, nor did it own many ships. The business pro
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- That Charles James Fox Bennett’s family had a connection with the West Country–Newfoundland trade is probable since he was sent to St John’s in 1808, possibly as a clerk.
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McKAY, SMITH – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
- When Charles James Fox Bennett was born on 11 June , in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Bennett, was 48 and his mother, Leah Robotham, was He married Isabella Sheppard on 11 April , in Clifton, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom.