Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett (12 December 1868 – 2 February 1947) was a British

United Kingdom

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 politician and writer. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Woodstock

Woodstock (UK Parliament constituency)

Woodstock, sometimes called New Woodstock, was a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. It comprised the town of Woodstock in the county of Oxfordshire and the surrounding countryside and villages, and elected two Members of Parliament from its re-enfranchisement in 1553 until 1832...

 (1906–10), and for Cardiff Central

Cardiff Central (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1929 until he retired in 1945. A close ally of Ramsay Macdonald

Ramsay MacDonald

James Ramsay MacDonald, PC, FRS was a British politician who was the first ever Labour Prime Minister, leading a minority government for two terms....

, he followed Macdonald away from the Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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 and supported National Labour from September 1931. He was a member of Archibald Ramsay

Archibald Maule Ramsay

Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay was a British Army officer who later went into politics as a Scottish Unionist Member of Parliament . From the late 1930s he developed increasingly strident antisemitic views...

's anti-semitic Right Club.

Works

• The downfall of the dervishes: being a sketch of the final Sudan campaign of 1898, London: Methuen, 1898
• With the Turks in Tripoli; being some experiences in the Turco-Italian war of 1911, London: Methuen, 1912
• Problems of village life, London: Williams and Norgate, 1914
• (tr.) The German army in Belgium, the white book of May 1915, London: Swarthmore Press, 1921.
• Apparitions and haunted houses; a survey of evidence, London: Faber and Faber, 1939
• Apollonius; or, The present and future of psychical research, London: Kegan Paul, [n.d.]. In the series Today and Tomorrow.

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