* 1870 – Richard Bedford Bennett, Canadian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1947 )

* C. Gordon Bell, Alan Kotok, Thomas N. Hastings, Richard Hill, The Evolution of the DECsystem-10, in C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design ( Digital, Bedford, 1979 )

In a collection of chancery proceedings, it is heard of a petition brought against Malory by Richard Kyd, parson of Papworth, claiming that Malory ambushed him on a November evening, and took him from Papworth, to Huntingdon, and then to Bedford, to Northampton, all the while being threatened on his life to either forfeit his church unto Malory, or else give £ 100.

The Liberals lost the election of 1930 to the Conservative Party, led by Richard Bedford Bennett.

* July 3 – Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1947 )

Elizabeth's mother was Jacquetta of Luxembourg, widow of Henry VI's uncle, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, but her father, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, was a new-minted baron.

Elizabeth was born about 1437 at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, the daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and his wife, the former Jacquetta of Luxembourg, widow of John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford.

It is named for Bedford, Virginia, former home of the first settler, Richard Ball, who built a house near what he called Bedford Spring in 1805.

* 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 ;

Another life-size statue of Richard Harris, as King Arthur from his film, Camelot, has been erected in Bedford Row, in the center of his home town of Limerick.

Hearn left his manuscripts to William Bedford, who sold them to Dr Richard Rawlinson, who in his turn bequeathed them to the Bodleian.

Richard Atkinson ( Bishop of Bedford )

Born at Maidstone in Kent, he was the son of another Richard Wydeville, chamberlain to the Duke of Bedford.

His father was a third cousin of Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada.

His role in The Bedford Incident was that of a young ensign who becomes so rattled by the needling of his Captain ( Richard Widmark ) that he accidentally fires an ASROC at a Soviet submarine, thus ( we are given to understand ) starting World War III.

* Richard Neil Inwood ( b. 1946 ), the Bishop of Bedford

Significant contemporary Indigenous Australian artists include Angelina George, Polly Ngal, Lofty Bardayal Nadjamerrek, Bronwyn Bancroft, Barbara Weir, Naata Nungurrayi, Kathleen Ngale, Shorty Jangala Robertson, Jimmy Baker, Tommy Watson, Kathleen Petyarre, Gloria Petyarre, Paddy Bedford ( aka Goowoomji ) ( circa 1922-2007 ), John Mawurndjul, Minnie Pwerle ( c. 1915-2006 ), Makinti Napanangka, Ningura Napurrula, Nurapayai Nampitjinpa ( Mrs Bennett ), Dorothy Napangardi Robinson, Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri ( circa 1920-2008 ), Regina Wilson, Angelina Ngal, Abie Loy Kemarre, Sarrita King, Ian Abdulla, Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty, Wintjiya Napaltjarri, Josepha Petrick Kemarre, Tommy Mitchell, Willy Tjungurrayi, Richard Bell, Cowboy Lou Pwerle, Brook Andrew, Ken Thaiday.

After Richard II came to the throne in 1377, Bedford resigned the title to the Crown.

Richard Bedford Bennett

While the pressure was unsuccessful with Canadian Conservative Prime Minister, Richard Bedford Bennett, his Liberal successor, William Lyon Mackenzie King, adopted a more pro-American stance.

Hawkins fully developed his love of rock music while playing with the now defunct heavy metal band The Commander ( Justin " Turbo " Hawkins, Rico Musson, Shaggy Forley, David " Growy " Owens, Jim Lee & Richard " Beaky " Bedford ).

Bloomsbury Square's garden contains a bronze statue by Richard Westmacott of Charles James Fox, who was a Whig associate of the Dukes of Bedford.

Widely respected for his knowledge of the law, Bedford was asked by Delaware's senators and fellow signers George Read and Richard Bassett to review a bill, then under consideration, on the organization of the federal judiciary system.

* 1609 – Richard Bennett, English Governor of the Colony of Virginia ( d. 1675 )

* Best Film Music – Richard Rodney Bennett ( lost to Backbeat )

The original score was composed by British classical composer Richard Rodney Bennett.

* 1980 – Richard Bennett, American guitarist and producer ( The Notorious Cherry Bombs )

* Patrick Kerwin ( as Chief Justice, 1 July 1954 – 2 February 1963 ; appointed a Puisne Justice under Prime Minister Richard Bennett, 20 July 1935 )

His aunts included Hollywood film stars Constance and Joan Bennett, from whom he was estranged, and his maternal grandfather was the celebrated matinée idol Richard Bennett.

* 1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole ( later discovery of Byrd's diary seems to indicate that this did not happen ).

The first claimed flight over the Pole was made on 9 May 1926 by US naval officer Richard E. Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett in a Fokker tri-motor aircraft.

Andy Bennett and Richard A. Peterson ( Nashville, Tenn .: Vanderbilt University Press ), pp. 168 – 83.

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.

** Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole ( later discovery of his diary seems to indicate that this did not happen ).

* July 28 – Richard Bennett defeats William Lyon Mackenzie King in federal elections and becomes the Prime Minister of Canada.

** Richard Bennett becomes Canada's eleventh prime minister.

* August 6 – Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia ( d. 1675 )

* April 12 – Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia ( b. 1609 )

The link was nevertheless popularised by a children's opera All the King's Men by Richard Rodney Bennett, first performed in 1969.

* The First Orchestrations – Dudley Moore & Richard Rodney Bennett – Played by John Bassett and his Band – Harkit Records HRKCD 8054

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.