As one of three Gordon Bennett Cups established by James Gordon Bennett, Jr., millionaire owner of the New York Herald, the automobile racing award was first given in 1900 in France.

The event was sponsored by James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the millionaire sportsman and owner of the New York Herald newspaper.

Still, Richard Bennett was in 1941, six years after he stepped down as prime minister, elevated to the peerage by King George VI as Viscount Bennett, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgary and Hopewell in the Dominion of Canada.

In 1910, Bennett became a director of Calgary Power Ltd. ( now formally TransAlta Corporation ) and just a year later he became President.

Bennett. jpg | Patrick Burns and R. B. Bennett at the Calgary Stampede in 1928

Bennett won the seat of Calgary West in the 1925 federal election and was returned to government as Minister of Finance in Meighen's short-lived government in 1926.

Bennett retired to Britain in 1938, and, on June 12, 1941, became the first and only former Canadian Prime Minister to be elevated to the peerage as Viscount Bennett, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgary and Hopewell in the Dominion of Canada.

Bennett was the Honorary Colonel of The Calgary Highlanders from the year of their designation as such in 1921 to his death in 1947.

Bennett himself was defeated in his Calgary riding.

Carolyn Bennett in Calgary during the Canadian federal election, 2008 | 2008 general election introducing the Liberal candidates for Alberta

William Maxwell Aitken, later with R. B. Bennett, formed Calgary Power Company in 1910.

A third generation Calgarian ( his great grandmother was born in Calgary in 1895 ), he grew up in the southwest community of Glenbrook and attended Viscount Bennett High School.

He practiced law as a partner in the Calgary office of Bennett Jones LLP for 34 years.

On January 5, 2006, he rejoined the Calgary office of Bennett Jones LLP, the firm with whom he practised before his judicial career.

Bennett to Calgary.

Bennett died in Calgary on October 16, 2004, a week after falling into a coma.

Both Chatham and Calgary attracted the ambitious and able young Maritime lawyer Richard Bedford Bennett, later to be prime minister of Canada.

He then joined the Calgary law firm of James Lougheed and R. B. Bennett.

Bennett: The Calgary Years ( 1991 )

Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett, PC, KC ( July 3, 1870 – June 26, 1947 ) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, politician, and philanthropist.

Osbert Sitwell, in a letter to James Agate, notes that Bennett was not, despite current views, " the typical businessman, with his mean and narrow outlook.

* Mike Bennett ( businessman ), award winning serial entrepreneur, E3 Media ( digital agency ) went to school at Woldgate between 1987 – 1992

* July 3-R. B. Bennett, lawyer, businessman, politician, philanthropist and 11th Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1947 )

** Avie Bennett, businessman and philanthropist

* June 26-R. B. Bennett, lawyer, businessman, politician, philanthropist and 11th Prime Minister of Canada ( b. 1870 )

In Newfoundland, the Anti-Confederates, led by businessman Charles Fox Bennett, defeated the government of the pro-Confederation Premier Sir Frederick Carter in 1869, effectively killing Confederation as a saleable proposal for two generations.

Bennett, a successful western businessman, campaigned on high tariffs and large-scale spending.

Bennett was a successful businessman and one of the island's richest residents with interests in the fisheries, distillery and brewery industry and shipbuilding.

She had a tendency to back people of very little or no principle and their causes, such as businessman Frank Bennett, whom her husband had worked for, but resigned from his job, due to his unethical means ( he had been involved in a school land swindle that Peter was trying to stop ); also backing her Aunt Pauline's divorce ; and backing an embezzler named Bryan Fuller, who was also enamored of Aunt Pauline.

In May 2009, it was reported that the stadium is owned by local businessman John Bennett who, despite having invested heavily in Dundee F. C., has rejoined the Dundee United board, where he had previously been a director until September 2008.

Wallace Foster Bennett ( November 13, 1898 – December 19, 1993 ) was an American businessman and politician.

Tom Bennett, a rather callous, ruthless businessman, returns to his office after becoming the recipient of a heart transplant.

* Robert R. Bennett ( born 1958 ), American businessman

* Edward Kennedy, Jr., American businessman and son of U. S. Senator Ted Kennedy and Virginia Joan Bennett

James Charles Bennett ( born 1948 ) is an American businessman, with a background in technology companies and consultancy, and a writer on technology and international affairs from a conservative point of view.

In 1937, he achieved one of the most important successes of his career, as the businessman Cosmo Topper, haunted by the ghosts of his clients played by Cary Grant and Constance Bennett.

His principal opponents were three Republicans, former U. S. Representative Clyde C. Holloway of Rapides Parish, former Lieutenant Governor Melinda Schwegmann of New Orleans, and businessman Kirt Bennett of Baton Rouge.

Harold Roe Bennett Sturdevant Bartle ( June 25, 1901 – May 9, 1974 ) was a businessman, philanthropist, Boy Scout executive, and professional public speaker who served two terms as mayor of Kansas City, Missouri.

* David Bennett, aka Avie Bennett ( born 1928 ), Canadian businessman and philanthropist

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.

* The role of Jim Gordon in Batman Year One being one of the few who doubts that Batman is a threat and is replaced at first by Ethan Bennett.

In 1925, the school established a department of geology and hired William Bennett Munro, then chairman of the division of History, Government, and Economics at Harvard University, to create a division of humanities and social sciences at Caltech.

The Tigers constructed Bennett Park at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Trumbull Avenue and began playing there in 1896.

In 1895, owner George Vanderbeck decided to build Bennett Park at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull Avenues, which would remain their base of operations for the next 104 seasons.

They played their first Western League game at Bennett Park on April 28, 1896, defeating the Columbus Senators 17 – 2.

The Tigers played their first game as a major league team at home against the Milwaukee Brewers on April 25, 1901, with 10, 000 fans at Bennett Park.

A. Bennett, ' Museums and the Establishment of the History of Science at Oxford and Cambridge ', British Journal for the History of Science 30, 1997, 29 – 46

Brown ( middle ) & The Famous Flames ( far left to right, Bobby Bennett, Lloyd Stallworth, and Bobby Byrd ), performing live at the Apollo Theater in New York City, 1964

Wayne Angell, James Baker, Bennett, Michael Boskin, Edwin Feulner, Forbes, George Gilder, Carla Hills, Larry Kudlow, Laffer, Ed Meese, Mundell, Michael Novak, and Watts endorsed the institute and agreed to lecture at Pepperdine and to serve on an advisory committee.

Upon his arrival he released 24 players and converted a boot storage room at Anfield into a room where the coaches could discuss strategy ; here, Shankly and other " Boot Room " members Joe Fagan, Reuben Bennett, and Bob Paisley began reshaping the team.

* History of Optics ( audio mp3 ) by Simon Schaffer, Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and Emily Winterburn, Curator of Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum ( recorded by the BBC ).

After the third meeting in 1961 at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin, a standard proposed primarily by Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. ( 1918 – 2011 ), became known as the Wingspread Convention, which was adopted by a new organization, the Comité International Permanent des Études Mycéniennes ( CIPEM ), affiliated in 1970 by the fifth colloquium with UNESCO.

Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created an entire West End comedy revue called One Over the Eight, before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore.

James Gordon Bennett, Jr. on May, 6th 1876 organized what was billed as the first polo match in the United States at Dickel's Riding Academy at 39th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City.

The possibility of aquatic locomotion via swimming has been discussed briefly in several papers ( Bennett 2001, 1994, and Bramwell & Whitfield 1974 ), and has been studied in detail at Michigan State University through the use of morphometrics and an extant phylogenetic bracket ( a morphologically comparative technique invented by Larry Witmer ).

R. B. Bennett was born on July 3, 1870, when his mother, Henrietta Stiles, was visiting at her parents ' home in Hopewell Hill, New Brunswick, Canada.

He grew up nearby at the home of his father, Henry John Bennett, at Hopewell Cape, the shire town of Albert County, then a town of 1, 800 people.

In addition to his Protestant faith, Bennett grew up with an abiding love of the British Empire, then at its apogee.