Don bennett musician
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Donald Clifford Tyndall (Don) Bennett (1910-1986), aviator, air force officer, politician and company director, was born on 14 September 1910 at Toowoomba, Queensland, youngest of four sons of George Thomas Bennett, a Queensland-born stock and station agent and grazier, and his English-born wife Celia Juliana, née Lucas. (Sir) Arnold Bennett was his brother. Educated at Brisbane Grammar School, Don left without academic distinction to work on his father’s cattle station. His move to Brisbane and attendance as an evening science student at the University of Queensland, together with his rank as a non-commissioned officer in the Militia, resulted in a successful application to become a cadet in the Royal Australian Air Force. He joined on 16 July 1930 and began flying training at Point Cook, Victoria. At the end of the course he came second in the theoretical examinations and top in practical flying.
Through his acceptance of a short-service commission in the Royal Air Force on 11 August 1931, Bennett began an association with England; he was
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Don Bennett
Don Bennett - Biography
Don Bennett became passionately interested in aviation while still a young boy. He was born on 14th September 1910 in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia and soon began to learn all about the rigours of life on a cattle farm – his father’s business. He was encouraged to pursue a career in medicine and, whilst at school, bent his energies in that direction. On leaving school he joined his father’s business but the aviation bug was by then firmly entrenched in him and, at the very first opportunity (he had to wait a short while to reach the age of eligibility), he applied to join the RAAF.
After a succession of further entanglements in what seemed interminable red tape, he finally enlisted in July 1930 as a cadet officer for Pilot training. He stayed in Australia, training at Point Cook, for one year. At this stage the authorities, as they had told him they would, sent him off to England. Transferred to the RAF he was posted to No 29 Squadron at North Weald, on Siskins, where after a year he applied to train on flying boats and was transferred
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Don Bennett (cricketer)
English cricketer and footballer
Donald Bennett (18 December 1933 – 12 June 2014) was an English first-class cricketer and footballer.
Background
Don Bennett was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire.
As a right-arm fast-medium bowler and right-handed batsman, Bennett played for Middlesex County Cricket Club between 1950 and 1968, appearing in over four-hundred matches. He scored 10,656 runs and took 784 wickets in first-class cricket.
He went on to become a long-serving coach (1969-1997) before he retired after forty-seven years of service to the club.[1]
In retirement, he was elected to the General Committee and also served a term as President.
In football, he joined Arsenal in 1950 as an amateur, and then as a professional a year later. He played as a winger and then fullback for nine years in the second XI.
In 1959 he moved to Coventry City where he made 73 appearances before retiring in 1962.[2]
Mike Brearley, who kept wicket for Bennett in the bowler's later years, recalled him to be a "stylish middle-order bats
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