Charles Peto Bennett

Charles Peto Bennett (1856–1940) was an English timber merchant and company director of Lombard Street, London.

He was a business partner of Alfred Baldwin Raper, and associate of Marentius Thams of Trondheim.

[1] Charles Peto Bennett was son and nephew of merchants in mahogany;[2] his father had warehouses on the River Thames.

[17] Eight Jarrahdale timber companies were in 1902 consolidated into Millars Karri and Jarrah Forests Limited of Western Australia.

[23][24][21] Other directorships (1914) held by Bennett were in Argentine Hardwoods & Lands Co. Ltd., Bode Rubber Estates Ltd., and Dominica Forests & Sawmills, Ltd.[25] In 1921 Alfred Baldwin Raper was a partner in C. Peto Bennett, and a director of Dominica Forests & Sawmills.

His roles in the RAF and the military mission to Norway in 1945 were recognised by the awards of the Order of the British Empire and the King Haakon VII Freedom Cross.