Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Wickham discuss Mr. Darcy during a whist party in chapter 16 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

The party currently has one Member of Parliament in the House of Commons, Caroline Lucas, who represents the constituency of Brighton Pavilion, and was the party's first leader, serving from 2008 until 2012, when she was succeeded by Natalie Bennett.

The Republican party members, the Blues, included John McAllen, Jesse Bennett, and Dr. Alexander M. Headley.

The United States was a party in United States v. Bennett County, 394 F. 2d 8 ( 8th Cir.

* the 1930 election, in which Richard Bedford Bennett surprisingly led the party to a thin majority government victory by securing twenty-four seats in rural Quebec ;

Social Credit's de facto leader during the election, W. A. C. Bennett, formerly a Conservative, was formally named party leader after the election.

It was in 1986 that Bennett switched from the Democratic to the Republican party.

The Conservatives, the young province's only other political party, had already selected R. B. Bennett as their leader.

In a vote of the newly elected caucus, Bennett was voted into the position of party leader and premier-designate on July 15, 1952.

Although the party was ostensibly the British Columbia wing of the Canadian social credit movement, Bennett jettisoned the old ideology, remembering that the Alberta Socreds had tried and failed to implement it soon after winning their first term in government.

Despite being a free enterprise party, the Bennett government formed BC Hydro in 1961 by nationalizing the province's largest private hydroelectric concern to make sure that it could not oppose the government's hydroelectric dam construction program.

Bennett's son, William R. Bennett, took over the leadership of the party, and modernized it, putting populism behind.

On its return to power in the 1975 election, the party, for the most part, eschewed the megaprojects of the elder Bennett ( with the exception of Expo 86 and the Coquihalla Highway ), and embraced a fiscally conservative program.

Vancouver Sun legislative columnist Vaughn Palmer commented at the time on the irony of Kelowna, centre of the Bennett dynasty from 1952 to 1986, now being represented by two fringe party MLAs: Serwa and Progressive Democratic Alliance MLA Judi Tyabji.

Bennett joined in order to use the party as a political vehicle, and was quick to dump the original ideology, and reorganize into the conservative populist British Columbia Social Credit Party.

Bennett moved permanently to Paris in 1877 following a scandal in New York: the publisher, arriving drunk at a party in the mansion of his fiancee's parents, reportedly urinated in the fireplace or the piano ( the exact location differed in witnesses ' memories ).

Arthur Sauvé, his father, had been leader of the Conservative party during the Premiership of Liberal Louis-Alexandre Taschereau and left the provincial politics when elected to the Canadian Parliament in 1930 and became Postmaster General in the R. B. Bennett government.

R. B. Bennett faced pressure for radical reforms from within and without the party:

Bennett cut off his party's organizational and financial support after the 1965 election in hopes of pressuring the federal party to reconcile with Caouette's Créditistes.

While BC Socred Premier Bennett campaigned actively for the federal party, its internal strain, Manning ’ s call to merge with the PCs, the defections of Thompson and Olson, and the wave of Trudeaumania swept the Socreds aside.

Herridge, a former Conservative party adviser who was Canada's Envoy to the United States from 1931-35 during the government of R. B. Bennett.

Bennett called for the Tories and Liberals to fuse into a single party, a second faction supported the status quo and a third wanted the Conservatives to leave the coalition.

Bennett, who was now in the anti-coalition faction, quit the party and crossed the floor to join and eventually lead the British Columbia Social Credit Party.

After losing the BC Conservative leadership, Bennett left the party and joined the small Social Credit League, becoming its leader.

In 1905, when Alberta was carved out of the territories and made a province, Bennett became the first leader of the Alberta Conservative Party.

Meighen stepped down as Tory leader, and Bennett became the party's leader in 1927 at the first Conservative leadership convention.

As Opposition leader, Bennett faced off against the more experienced Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in Commons debates, and took some time to acquire enough experience to hold his own with King.

Parliament appointed Protestant commissioners loyal to their cause to subdue the colonies, and two of them, the Virginian William Claiborne and Puritan leader Richard Bennett, took control of the colonial government in St. Mary's City in 1652.

The central quilt design, including a map of the area to locate the various sites represented, was created by the late Flossie Bennett, a longtime leader of the FCE.

* John Cook Bennett ( 1804 – 1867 ), physician and a ranking and influential ( but short-lived and controversial ) leader of the Latter-Day-Saint movement, who acted as second in command to Joseph Smith, Jr. for a brief period in the early 1840s

Christopher Bennett was appointed interim leader until the leadership election was held.

A battle of power ensued in 1962 that resulted in Subud acquiring its own organization and Bennett resigning from the Subud brotherhood and his role as leader of the Coombe Springs Community and Director of Research of the Institute.

Conservative leader R. B. Bennett was Rutherford's opponent in the 1905 election.

In the 1869 election, Shea was forced to campaign in Placentia against Charles Fox Bennett, the anti-Confederation leader, and an electorate strongly opposed to union.

Wicks and Bennett both withdrew in favour of Hansell who was the hand-picked choice of Alberta Social Credit leader and Premier Ernest Manning.

The effective death of the movement came when W. A. C. Bennett was elected leader of the League in 1951.

* October 11-Richard Bedford Bennett, becomes leader of the Conservative Party of Canada

Bennett, a millionaire Calgary businessman at the 1927 leadership convention, the first time a Tory leader was chosen by this method.

The leader was Charles Fox Bennett 1860s-1874.

Lawyer Jim Bennett was acclaimed party leader on February 6, 2006, after no other candidate came forward for the post.

Her cabaret and nightclub appearances appearances led to more serious stage work and it was in a play by Arnold Bennett called Mr. Prohack ( 1927 ) that Elsa first met another member of the cast, a rising actor named Charles Laughton.

Random House was founded in 1927 by Americans Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two years after they acquired the Modern Library imprint.

Before 1920 Johnson had gained a reputation as a pianist on the East coast on a par with Eubie Blake and Luckey Roberts and made dozens of superb player piano roll recordings for Aeolian, Perfection ( the label of the Standard Music Roll Co., Orange, NJ ), Artempo ( label of Bennett & White, Inc., Newark, NJ ), Rythmodik, and QRS during the period from 1917 – 1927.

In 1927 Bennett married Annie Elizabeth May Richards, known as " May ".

Bennett opened his own hardware store in 1927, in partnership with another man, and married soon afterwards.

* Robert Frederick Bennett ( 1927 – 2000 ), Governor of Kansas, 1975 – 1979

Bennett was born May 23, 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri.

Born at Stafford as the third of four children, Hulme married Minnie Bennett at Fylde, Lancashire, in June 1927. Their twin daughters, Josephine and Mary, were born the following year.

Bennett moved farther away from Harlem when she married Dr. Albert Joseph Jackson in 1927 and moved to Eustis, Florida.

* Charlie Bennett ( 1854 – 1927 ), baseball player