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"Gordon Bennett" is said frequently by Terry McCann in Minder and Gerry Standing in New Tricks, both played by Dennis Waterman. It is said by the main character Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman , in series 3 episode 8 ("Rue Morgue"), and series 5, episode 6 ("Ice-cold murder") of Death in Paradise .
Bennett (who was always known as Gordon) was born in Balwyn, Melbourne, on 15 April 1887, to George Bennett, a South African-born school teacher, and his Australian-born wife, Harriet. He was the sixth of nine children and attended Balwyn State School, where his father taught, and then Hawthorn College as a teenager having been given a three ...
Gordon Bennett (general) (1887–1962), Australian soldier; Gordon Bennett (union organiser) (1944–1991), Christmas Island labor advocate; Gordon Dunlap Bennett (born 1946), American Catholic bishop; Gordon Lockhart Bennett (1912–2000), Canadian politician; James Gordon Bennett Sr. (1795–1872), American editor and New York Herald founder
Lieutenant General Henry Gordon Bennett CB, CMG, DSO (16 April 1887 – 1 August 1962) was an Australian soldier who served in both World War I and World War II.Bennett (who was always known as Gordon) was born in Melbourne and at 29 became at the time the youngest Australian general.
Escape from Singapore is a 1973 Australian TV dramatised documentary about General Gordon Bennett and his escape from Singapore in World War II. [1] It was a number of dramatised documentaries Power made for Australian TV. He spent ten months researching it, accessing papers provided by Bennett's widow.
In 1901 the Gordon Bennett Cup race was run in conjunction with the Paris-Bordeaux race on 29 May over a distance of 527.1 km. The race was won by Henri Fournier driving a Mors with a time of 6h 10m 44s. The first of the Gordon Bennett Cup contestants was Leonce Girardot, driving a Panhard with a time of 8h 50m 59s. [4]
Gordon Bennett is a comic book character, who appeared in The Beano (but previously the Beezer Annuals), and is named after the exclamation 'Gordon Bennett'.
The Gordon Bennett Cup (or Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett) is the world's oldest gas balloon race, and is "regarded as the premier event of world balloon racing" according to the Los Angeles Times. [1] [2] Referred to as the "Blue Ribbon" of aeronautics, the first race started from Paris, France, on September 30, 1906. [3]