Bennett was chairman and managing director of Joseph Lucas Ltd and also served as a justice of the peace for Sutton Coldfield.
[1][2] He served under Winston Churchill as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and National Service between 1951 and 1952.
On 1 July 1953 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Bennett of Edgbaston, of Sutton Coldfield in the County of Warwick.
[3] Lord Bennett of Edgbaston married Agnes, daughter of Joseph Palmer, in 1907.
They lived at Ardencote, Luttrell Road, Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham.