Charles james fox bennett biography of abraham

          “His Excellency arrived amongst us,” Charles James Fox Bennett* proclaimed in , “at a period when the country had been torn and distracted by political.

        1. Abraham Bennett came 5 Nov on coastal ship Paul Pry Abraham Bennett, letter to be collected from Melbourne Post Office.
        2. He was born on 19 February in India, his father's posthumous son.
        3. He began his career in by writing what became probably the most widely read pamphlet in British history, An Address to the People of.
        4. Three installments of the Book of Abraham, printed in three issues of the Times and Seasons.

          5. He was born on 19 February in India, his father's posthumous son..

          BENNETT, CHARLES JAMES FOX, merchant and politician; b. 11 June 1793 at Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, son of Thomas and Leah Bennett; m. 1829 Isabella Sheppard of Clifton (now part of Bristol), England; d. 5 Dec.

          1883 at St John’s, Nfld.

          That Charles James Fox Bennett’s family had a connection with the West Country–Newfoundland trade is probable since he was sent to St John’s in 1808, possibly as a clerk. Soon after the end of the Napoleonic wars he was in business on his own account in St John’s and in the early 1820s formed a partnership with his elder brother Thomas*.

          The firm of C. F.

          Charles James Fox. (), a mainstay of the abolitionist cause in Parliament died at Chiswick.

          Bennett and Company was engaged in the general trade of the colony, supplying planters (especially in St Mary’s, Placentia, and Fortune bays), importing European merchandise, and exporting fish, usually on a commission basis.

          Unlike most Newfoundland trading firms, it seldom engaged in the seal-fishery, nor did it own many ships. The business pro