Viscount Bennett

Viscount Bennett

Viscount Bennett, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgary and Hopewell in the Dominion of Canada, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1941 for the former Prime Minister of Canada Richard Bedford Bennett. He never married so the title became extinct on his death in 1947.

Viscounts Bennett (1941)

*Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett (1870-1947) (extinct)


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