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词条 Henry Leigh-Bennett
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{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}}{{Use British English|date=August 2016}}Henry Currie Leigh-Bennett (1852 – 7 March 1903, Windlesham) was a Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Chertsey from 1897 until his death in 1903.[1]

Biography

Leigh-Bennett was educated at New College, Oxford. He graduated as a B.A. in 1875, and being called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, in 1878, when he joined the Oxford Circuit. For many years Leigh Bennett has devoted the greater part of his time to public work in the district of Surrey in which he resided, and held several political offices.[2] At the by-election of 1897 Leigh-Bennett was elected as MP.

Apart from being a MP, he also was a director at the London and South Western Railway and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[3]

In February 1903, while visiting a friend in Woking, Leigh-Bennett suddenly fell ill. Three weeks later he died of appendicitis.

References

1. ^{{cite news |title=Death of an MP |work=Edinburgh Evening News |date=9 March 1903 |accessdate=21 July 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/19030309/035/0002| publisher = British Newspaper Archive|subscription=yes}}
2. ^{{cite news |title=The Chertsey Election|work=London Standard |date=20 February 1897 |accessdate=21 July 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18970220/036/0005| publisher = British Newspaper Archive|subscription=yes}}
3. ^{{cite news |title=Death of Mr. Leigh-Bennett|work=Gloucester Citizen |date=9 March 1903 |accessdate=21 July 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000325/19030309/016/0003| publisher = British Newspaper Archive|subscription=yes}}

External links

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| years = 1897–1903
| before = Charles Harvey Combe
| after = John Arthur Fyler
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