1107 Joseph Bennett

Constituency : Gainsborough  1885-6, 1892-5

Joseph  took  the  new  seat  of  Gainsborough.

Joseph  was  born  in  Grimsby . He  was  educated  at  Wesley  College, Sheffield  and  became  a  merchant  in  Louth.

Joseph  was  defeated  in  1886. He  regained  the  seat  in  1892  and  stood  down  at  the  1895  election.

Joseph  supported  the  extension  of  local  government  to  rural  districts  in  1893. He  spoke  in  the  debate  on  the  second  Home  Rule  Bill  the  same  year.

He  died  in  1908  aged  78.