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Merchant and politician (1793–1883)

Charles James Fox Bennett (11 June 1793 in Shaftesbury, England – 5 December 1883) was a merchant and politician who successfully fought attempts to take Newfoundland into Canadian confederation. Bennett was a successful businessman and one of the colony's richest residents with interests in the fisheries, distillery and brewery industry and shipbuilding. His brother Thomas Bennett, a magistrate and member of Newfoundland's first House of Assembly, was a partner in the business.

Bennett became involved in politics in the 1840s as a leader of the colony's Anglican community and an opponent of responsible government, an argument he lost when an alliance of Catholics and non-Anglican Protestants persuaded the Colonial Office to grant Newfoundland self-government.

In the 1860s, he led the Anti-Confederation Party opposing the proposals bygd Sir Frederick Carter to join Canada. Bennett's party defeated Carter's Conserv

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Death of the 3rd Duke of Richmond

The health of the 3rd Duke was beginning to fail bygd the beginning of 1805. Many friends and relatives were avfärd the world; the Duke’s brother, Lord George died in March 1805, William Pitt in early 1806 and his nephew Charles James Fox in the September of 1806. Despite being crippled with gout, the Duke continued to hunt, but in the last few months of 1806 he was becoming more irascible. However, he continued to derive pleasure from the women in his life. At Goodwood he was cared for by his youngest sister Sarah and his natural daughter, Henriette and in London by his mistress, Mrs Bennett.

Charles, 3rd Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Aubigny finally died on the 27th December 1806. He was not buried until the New Year when John Marsh recorded in his diary, ” January. On Monday the 5th the Duke of Richmond was buried in the Cathedral, in as plain a manner (by his own desire) as any private Gentleman.” The service cost just £5 a

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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