BENNETT, HENRY GILBERT (1877-1959), radical, better known as Harry Scott Bennett, was born on 1 June 1877 at Chilwell, Geelong, Victoria, only child of James William Bennett, Bristol-born carpenter, and his wife Charlotte Mary, née Phipps, a school-teacher. The family moved to Melbourne, where Bennett absorbed rationalism and republicanism from Joseph Symes and Charles Rose. There also he developed his early socialism, as a foundation member of the Victorian Socialist League in 1897, in H. H. Champion's Social Democratic Party from 1902, and in Tom Mann's Victorian Socialist Party from 1906. After leaving his employment as a draper's assistant for full-time public speaking, he won the Ballarat West seat in the Legislative Assembly for the Political Labor Council in 1904. He worked hard for his constituents, taking a lively interest in education, unemployment and civil liberties and, after his marriage with Unitarian rites to Caroline (Carrie) Thomas on 1 March 1905, seemed securely launched on a parliamentary career. But his eagerness for social change had bred impatience and a conviction that workers needed to be better educated to make the best use of parliament. He resigned his seat in 1907 and returned to full-time educational work. Generous, eloquent, with a gentle humour and a fine, cultivated voice, energetic, a prodigious reader with a photographic memory, he became one of Australasia's finest public speakers.
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