Sir Reginald Frederick Brittain Bennett (22 July 1911 – 19 December 2000) was an English

England

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 Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician, international yachtsman, doctor, psychiatrist and painter.

Bennett was educated at Winchester College

Winchester College

Winchester College is an independent school for boys in the British public school tradition, situated in Winchester, Hampshire, the former capital of England. It has existed in its present location for over 600 years and claims the longest unbroken history of any school in England...

 and New College, Oxford

New College, Oxford

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 and served in the RNVR 1934-46. He was a helmsman

Helmsman

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 of Shamrock V

Shamrock V

Shamrock V was the first British yacht to be built to the new J Class rule. It was commissioned by Sir Thomas Lipton for his fifth America’s Cup challenge.-Origins:...

1934-35 and was in the British America's Cup

America's Cup

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 team in 1949 and 1953.

Bennett contested Woolwich West

Woolwich West (UK Parliament constituency)

Woolwich West was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1983. It was based around Eltham, now in the London Borough of Greenwich in south-east London....

 in 1945. He was Member of Parliament

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 for Gosport and Fareham

Gosport and Fareham (UK Parliament constituency)

Gosport and Fareham was a parliamentary constituency in Hampshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until it was abolished for the February 1974 general election....

 from 1950 to 1974, and after boundary changes, for Fareham from 1974 to 1979 (preceding Peter Lloyd

Peter Lloyd (politician)

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). He was Parliamentary Private Secretary

Parliamentary Private Secretary

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 to Iain Macleod

Iain Macleod

Iain Norman Macleod was a British Conservative Party politician and government minister.-Early life:...

 1956-63 and chaired the parliamentary scientific committee 1959-62.

Offices held