NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Bennet, Charles Augustus (1776-1859) 5th Earl of Tankerville LBT ID: LdTanke5 | B/BAP: 1776-04-28 DIED: 1859-06-25 |
SOURCES: Judd, Members of Parliament 1734-1832 (1955); thePeerage.com | |
Son of Charles Bennet, the fourth earl (d. 1822); educated at Eton, he was Whig MP for
Steyning (1803-06), Knaresborough (1806-18), and Berwick-on-Tweed) (1820-22); in 1806 he
married Armandine Sophie Leonie Corisande de Gramont. | |