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	William Wedgwood Benn
		John Benn was also active in a wide variety of causes and this had a major influence on William's attitude towards the poor.
		Benn became a junior officer in the Middlesex Yeomanry and served in Egypt in 1915.
		Benn's main slogan during the by-election campaign that he won on the 16th August, 1927, was "The Labour Party is a Socialist Party, and I am standing as a Socialist".
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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Tony Benn (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Right Honourable Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born April 3, 1925), known as Tony Benn, and briefly as the 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British politician regarded as being on the left of the Labour Party.
		Tony Benn's father William Wedgwood Benn was a Liberal MP who defected to Labour and was later elevated to the Lords.
		Benn's Bristol South-East constituency was abolished by boundary changes in 1983, and he was defeated in the neighbouring seat of Bristol East by the Conservative's first non-white MP, Jonathon Sayeed.
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	Tony Benn Biography
		The Right Honourable Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born April 3, 1925), known as Tony Benn, formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British politician regarded as being on the left of the Labour Party.
		Benn's Bristol South-East constituency was abolished by boundary changes in 1983, and he failed to depose Michael Cocks in the safe seat of Bristol South.
		Tony Benn was married to American-born educationalist Caroline Middleton DeCamp (from Cincinnati, Ohio, daughter of a lawyer) from 1949 until her death in 2000.
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	Tony Benn
		The Right Honourable Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born April 3, 1925), known as Tony Benn, and briefly as the 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British politician regarded as being on the left of the Labour Party.
		Tony Benn's father William Wedgwood Benn was a Liberal MP who defected to Labour and was later elevated to the Lords.
		Benn's Bristol South-East constituency was abolished by boundary changes in 1983, and he was defeated in the neighbouring seat of Bristol East by the Conservative's first non-white MP, Jonathon Sayeed.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/to/Tony_Benn.html (591 words)

	John Benn - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Sir John Williams Benn, 1st Baronet (November 13, 1850-10 April 1922) was a British politician, particularly associated with London politics, and noted as the grandfather of Tony Benn.
		Benn was born in Manchester but his parents moved the family to east London the following year, where they opened an institute for homeless boys.
		Benn was largely taught at home and at the age of 17 joined a furniture company.
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	William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate
		William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate DSO DFC PC (10 May 1877–17 November 1960) was a British Liberal MP who later joined the Labour Party.
		Benn was the second son of Sir John Benn, MP, and his father-in-law Daniel Holmes was also an MP.
		Benn was elected as Labour MP for Gorton near Manchester in 1937.
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	Tony Benn Summary
		Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born April 3, 1925), known as Tony Benn, formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British politician on the left of the Labour Party.
		His father William Wedgwood Benn was a Liberal MP who defected to Labour and was later elevated to the House of Lords with the title of 1st Viscount Stansgate.
		Benn's father had been created Viscount Stansgate in 1942 when Winston Churchill offered to increase the number of Labour Peers; at this time Benn's older brother Michael was intending to enter the priesthood and had no objections to inheriting a peerage.
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	Ernest Benn
		Ernest Benn, the eldest son of the Liberal politician, John Benn and Lily Pickstone, a distant relative of Josiah Wedgwood, was born in London in 1875.
		Whereas Benn had moved to the right during the 1920s, Gollancz had moved to the left and was now a strong supporter of the Labour Party.
		Wedgwood was now a Labour MP who favoured a socialist solution to Britain's economic problems.
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	The Biography Channel - Tony Benn Biography
		Anthony Wedgwood Benn was born in Westminster, in 1925, into a wealthy English family, and followed his father, William Wedgwood Benn MP, into politics.
		Benn grew concerned that, upon his fatherâs death, his inheritance of the Stansgate peerage would disqualify him from serving in the House of Commons.
		With his fatherâs death in 1960, Benn was forced to leave the Commons but, thanks to the Peerage Act of 1963, he returned as Commons MP for Bristol South East.
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	William Wedgwood Benn: I Think of Him Every Day
		These questions came to my mind because this week is the 100th anniversary of my father's election as a radical Liberal MP for Tower Hamlets, in the landslide that brought Campbell-Bannerman into Downing Street.
		My dad, William Wedgwood Benn, died in 1960 at the age of 83, having served in both houses of parliament for 47 years; he had, and still has, a huge influence on my life and I think about him every day.
		He was a junior minister working with Lloyd George when the pensions scheme was introduced, and later secretary of state for India, arguing for Indian independence and bringing Gandhi to London.
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	William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate - Definition, explanation
		William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate (1877 - 1960) was a British Liberal MP who later joined the Labour Party and served as Secretary of State for India in Ramsay MacDonald's second administration.
		On his death he was succeeded as Viscount Stansgate by his second son Tony Benn.
		He was son of the liberal politician John Williams Benn.
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	Thoughts of Tony Benn
		These days, Benn feels out of place in the Parliament he struggled to remain a member of and in the party he began passing out leaflets for as a 10-year-old in 1935.
		Benn was born in London in 1925, the son of William Wedgwood Benn, a Liberal member of Parliament who later switched to Labor.
		Benn bought the park bench where he proposed from the Oxford Town Council, and it sits in their overgrown front yard.
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	Politics \| Cabinet promotion for Hilary keeps it in the family
		Tony Benn recalled yesterday that his father immersed him in politics, and the first Labour MP he met was Oswald Mosley.
		Benn senior recalls that he was very influenced by his father's saying: "Dare to be a Daniel, dare to stand alone, dare to have a purpose firm and dare to make it known."
		Son of William Benn; retired in May 2001 after 50 years in parliament and as the longest serving Labour MP ever.
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	William Benn: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		William Wedgwood Benn, was born on the 10th May 1877 died 17th November 1960 Benn became the youngest MP winning the seat of Wapping for the Liberals in1906
		His father, William Wedgwood Benn (1877-1960), was a Liberal and then a Labour MP who entered the House of Lords in 1942 as 1st Viscount Stansgate.
		Benn pressed on and was largely responsible for the passage of the Peerage Act (1963), which allowed peers to renounce their titles for their lifetimes.
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	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Politics \| Latest in Benn dynasty
		Grandfather William Wedgwood Benn started political life as a Liberal MP in 1906, but disliked the leadership of David Lloyd George who took control of the party towards the end of the World War One.
		Tony Benn fought a protracted legal battle after his father died in 1960 to remain in the House of Commons - a case that eventually saw the creation of the Peerage Act of 1963.
		Although Hilary Benn may be seen by some as the latest in one of Britain's most successful political dynasties, he is clearly his own man saying he is a "Benn not a Bennite".
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	WHISP 37/2
		Although he won a famous victory over Winston Churchill to become Labour MP for Dundee in November 1922, he was passed over for the foreign secretaryship of the first Labour government fourteen months later.
		William Wedgwood Benn, first Viscount Stansgate (1877-1960), father of Tony Benn MP, served as MP for Aberdeen North from 1928-1931.
		Donald Dewar (1937-), presently First Minister of the Scottish Parliament, first entered the House of Commons as the MP for Aberdeen South and served there from 1966 until his defeat in 1970.
	www.scottish.parliament.uk /vli/history/whisp/whisp-00/wh37-02.htm (1224 words)

	thePeerage.com - Exhibit
		Benn, William Wedgwood, first Viscount Stansgate 1877-1960, parliamentarian, was born 10 May 1877 at Hackney, the younger brother of (Sir) Ernest Benn [qv.], a notice of whom appears above.
		Refusing the office of chief whip from the hand of Lloyd George, Benn returned to service in Italy and was eventually seconded to the Italian Army to organize and participate in the first parachute landing of a secret-service agent behind the enemy lines.
		On the formation of the national Government Benn had remained loyal to the Labour Party, was decisively defeated at the ensuing general election, and was again defeated in 1935 as a candidate for Dudley.
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	Tony Benn
		Anthony Wedgwood Benn is born on the 3rd April 1925.
		Upon the death of his father in 1960, Benn succeeds to the peerage and is automatically disqualified from the House of Commons.
		Upon Labour's return to government in 1997, Benn remains firmly on the back-benches, disliking 'New Labour' which he sees as a means of dismantling socialism.
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	Tony Benn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His paternal grandfather was Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet and his father was the 1st Viscount Stansgate; whilst the Wedgwood side of his ancestry (through Sir John's wife) connected him to the family of Josiah Wedgwood, their common ancestor being Gilbert Wedgwood (1588-1678) who established the family as Potters in Burslem, Staffordshire.
		Benn met US-born Caroline Middleton DeCamp (Born 13 October 1926) (from Cincinnati, Ohio, daughter of a lawyer) over tea at Worcester College in 1949 and nine days later he proposed to her on a park bench in the city.
		Benn's philosophy became known as "Bennism", which consisted of a form of syndicalism, economic planning, greater democracy in the structures of the Labour Party and observance of Party conference decisions by the Party leadership.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tony_Benn (3191 words)

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		William Clarke - Joined the Fabian Society and contributed the article, the Industrial Basis of Socialism, to the book Essays in Fabian Socialism, edited by George Bernard Shaw.
		William Hewins - Was first director of the London School of Economics and held the post until 1903 when he resigned to work for Joseph Chamberlain and his tariff reform campaign.
		William Morris - Joined the Social Democratic Federation and began contributing articles to its journal, Justice.
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	Telegraph \| News
		Hilary Benn, the new International Development Secretary, is one of the few politicians in recent memory to follow both his father and grandfather into the Cabinet.
		His grandfather was William Wedgwood Benn, first Viscount Stansgate, who was Secretary of State for India in Ramsay MacDonald's Cabinet in 1929.
		Mr Benn's father, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, was a prominent and controversial figure in the Cabinets of both Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.
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	Tony Benn - Official Website
		Apart from a very few documents relating to both grandfathers, (Sir John Benn MP and Daniel Holmes MP) his father, William Wedgwood Benn MP (Lord Stansgate), some of which date back to the end of the nineteenth Century, the main collection begins with personal and political documents from the early 1930's.
		The core of this collection and the key to the other material held is the diaries and journals which extend back to the early forties and which since 1963 are virtually unbroken to the present time.
		Tony Benn continues to dictate his diary on to cassette but they have not been transcribed beyond 2002.
	www.tonybenn.com /archive.html (204 words)

	:: ak13 :: Tempest with a teapot - Tony Benn MP
		One reason for this became clear in 1960 when, on the death of his father, Benn became Viscount Stansgate and was promptly ejected from the House of Commons.
		Tony Benn to be one of the few unique voices left in politics today, possessing enormous popular appeal thanks to his knowledge, charm and idealism.
		Anthony Wedgwood Benn was born on 3 April 1925 in 40 Millbank, London - the site of the future Labour headquarters.
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	The Sixties
		The Postmaster General, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, said that the Post Office Tower symbolised 20th - century Britain.
		Her Majesty the Queen visited on 17th May 1966 and took tea with the Postmaster General who presented her with a gold replica of a model of the Tower.
		Anthony Wedgwood Benn MP will speak and invite the Mayor of Camden to be the first visitor.
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	Airminded · William Benn, and the Black Ship
		Tony Wedgewood Benn’s (the retired British MP) father was one of the real practitioner’s and you will find accounts of his missions in Italy both in the published literature and in files at The National Archives at Kew, UK.
		In the 1920s, he was a very airminded MP: on several occasions during parliamentary debates, he declared that airpower had made the Army and Navy obsolete, and that therefore their budgets should be cut and the money given to the RAF instead (an idea known as ’substituion’).
		Following David’s lead, I learn from the Oxford DNB that Benn had a distinguished career in the First World War, partly in the RNAS, where he served as an observer and a pilot.
	airminded.org /2006/01/14/william-benn-and-the-black-ship (905 words)

	25 May History: This Date (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Asquith lost his seat in East Fife in 1918 and William Wedgwood Benn led the groups opposed to Lloyd George's gover seats and had a large majority over the Labour Party and the Liberal Party.
		John Benn, who was also opposed to Lloyd George, gave the group the name, Wee Frees, after a small group of Free Church of Scotland members who refused to accept the union of their church with the United Presbyterian Church.
		After William Emerson father died, his son was left largely to the intellectual care of his aunt Mary Moody Emerson [25 Aug 1774 – 01 May 1863], who took her duties seriously.
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