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Charles Peto Bennett (1856–1940) was an English timber merchant and company director of Lombard Street, London . He was a business partner of Alfred Baldwin Raper , and associate of Marentius Thams of Trondheim .

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13-700: Charles Bennett may refer to: Peers [ edit ] Charles Bennet, 1st Earl of Tankerville (1674–1722), British peer Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville (1697–1753), British peer and politician Charles Bennet, 3rd Earl of Tankerville (1716–1767), British peer and politician Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville (1743–1822), cricket pioneer Charles Bennet, 5th Earl of Tankerville (1776–1859), British politician Charles Bennet, 6th Earl of Tankerville (1810–1899), British peer and Conservative politician Politicians [ edit ] Charles Bennett (Australian politician) (1894–1968), member of

26-805: A director of Millars Timber & Trading Co., a successor company. He had visited Western Australia in 1906 with Leama Robert Davies of London, another director of Millars and son of Maurice Coleman Davies , a founder of the timber industry there. In an interview for The West Australian , Bennett commented on the economics of jarrah ( Eucalyptus marginata ), used for railway sleepers in India, and karri ( Eucalyptus diversicolor ). Other directorships (1914) held by Bennett were in Argentine Hardwoods & Lands Co. Ltd., Bode Rubber Estates Ltd., and Dominica Forests & Sawmills, Ltd. In 1921 Alfred Baldwin Raper

39-483: A director of Myers Patent Box, a company set up to automate production of wooden boxes and barrels, which took over the going concern at the Invicta Works, Bow Common of the cork merchants L. Lumley & Co. A 1916 advertisement for C. Peto Bennett of London and Liverpool offered "Box Shooks for Shell Cases, Ammunition, Ration, Bacon, Biscuit, Rum, Jam, Petroleum, Clothing, Tea, and all other Boxes." By 1919 they had

52-480: A reputation as clearly the largest British importer of box shooks (i.e. slats ), for the manufacture of wooden boxes . C. Peto Bennett was UK agent for boxes from Färjenäs Aktiebolag ( sv:Färjenäs Snickerifabrik ) of Gothenburg . The company also represented S. A. Woods Machine Co. of Boston . Around 1890 Bennett visited British North Borneo , and set up there North Borneo Rubber Estates, Ltd., which he ran for many years. E. Peto Bennett of 27 Lombard Street

65-451: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Charles Bennet, 1st Earl of Tankerville Charles Bennet, 1st Earl of Tankerville KT PC (1674 – 21 May 1722), known as The Lord Ossulston between 1695 and 1714, was a British peer. Tankerville was the son of the book collector Bridget Bennet and John Bennet, 1st Baron Ossulston . Tankerville succeeded his father in

78-2243: The New South Wales Legislative Assembly Charles Bennett (high commissioner) (1913–1998), New Zealand soldier and public servant Charles E. Bennett (politician) (1910–2003), American Congressman Charles Fox Bennett (1793–1883), merchant and politician in Newfoundland Charles G. Bennett (1863–1914), American Congressman and Secretary of the Senate Sportspeople [ edit ] Charles Bennett (athlete) (1870–1949), British track and field athlete Charles Bennett (cricketer) (1872–1921), English cricketer Charles Bennett (defensive end, born 1963) , American football defensive end Charles Bennett (defensive end, born 1983) , American football defensive end Charles Bennett (fighter) (born 1979), known as "Krazy Horse", mixed martial arts fighter Charles Bennett (footballer) (1882–?), English footballer Charlie Bennett (1854–1927), American baseball player Chuck Bennett (1907–1973), American football halfback and coach Scientists and academics [ edit ] Charles E. Bennett (scholar) (1858–1921), American classical scholar Charles H. Bennett (physicist) (born 1943), American physicist and information theorist Charles L. Bennett (born 1956), American astrophysicist Other people [ edit ] Charles Bennett (actor) (1889–1943), American actor Charles Bennett (screenwriter) (1899–1995), English playwright and screenwriter Charles Alan Bennett (1877–1943), British barrister and judge Charles H. Bennett (illustrator) (1829–1867), Victorian illustrator who pioneered techniques in comic illustration Charles H. Bennett (soldier) (1811–1855), present at start of California Gold Rush Charles Harper Bennett (1840–1927), English photographer and inventor Charles Henry Allan Bennett (1872–1923), English Buddhist monk Charles Peto Bennett (1856–1940), English timber merchant See also [ edit ] Bennett (name) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

91-643: The Southern Cross pearl formation, of nine pearls, which was shown at the Franco-British Exhibition . It was on display again at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924. Bennett bought pictures by Adriaen van de Velde , Paulus Potter and Frans van Mieris the Elder in or shortly after 1928. Bennett married Kristine Elisabeth Gudde (1886–1982) from Trondheim , known as "Kiss", when she

104-645: The barony in 1695 and was able to take a seat in the House of Lords . In 1714 he was created Earl of Tankerville , a revival of the title which had become extinct on the death of his father-in-law thirteen years earlier (see below). He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1716 and made a Knight of the Thistle in 1721. Lord Tankerville married Lady Mary, daughter of Ford Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville , in 1695. He died in May 1722 and

117-409: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Bennett&oldid=1232063453 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

130-654: Was 17. They had two sons. The elder son Alfred Edwin Peto Bennett (1905–1996) was born in Cobham, Surrey . He married in 1935 Helle Huitfeldt, co-owner of the Norwegian media business Schibsted . As a great-granddaughter of Christian Schibsted , she held one-sixth of the company. The second son (Charles) Peto Bennett (1906–1978) was born in Perth, Western Australia . His roles in the RAF and

143-550: Was a partner in C. Peto Bennett, and a director of Dominica Forests & Sawmills. The partnership was dissolved in 1929. In 1927 Bennett also was a director of Tuaran Rubber Estates, Ltd. That year The Californian Lumber Merchant reported on the month-long visit Bennett made to the Philippines , with honorary consul Niels Christian Gude. Millars Timber & Trading Co. had two large subsidiaries in Manila . By 1908, Bennett owned

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156-421: Was in 1891 handling a cargo of Borneo hardwoods. Bennett became a director on the 1897 launch of Jarrahdale Jarrah Forests & Railways Ltd. It went into voluntary liquidation in 1901, Bennett being one of the liquidators. Eight Jarrahdale timber companies were in 1902 consolidated into Millars Karri and Jarrah Forests Limited of Western Australia. Bennett was a director of Millars, and in 1914 and 1924

169-656: Was succeeded in his titles by his son, Charles . Charles Peto Bennett Charles Peto Bennett was son and nephew of merchants in mahogany ; his father had warehouses on the River Thames . He set up in business in Lombard Street in 1877. A timber import partnership with Lars August Brolin was dissolved in 1890. Bennett was also involved in the 1890 bankruptcy of the timber merchant Arthur Henry Lilley, trading as Lilley, Bennett & Co. from 27 Lombard Street, in debt to Brolin, Bennett & Co. In 1887 Bennett became

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