Robert Bennet (1605–1683) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1653 and 1654. He fought in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War.
Biography
[edit]Bennet was the eldest son of Richard Bennet, of Hexworthy[1] in the parish of Lawhitton in Cornwall. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 13 December 1622, aged 17 and was awarded BA on 25 October 1624. He was a student of the Middle Temple in 1622. Bennet was a Parliamentary colonel, and governor of St. Michael's Mount and St. Mawes Castle in the Civil War.[2]
In 1653, Bennet was nominated as Member of Parliament for Cornwall in the Barebones Parliament. He was elected MP for Launceston in 1654 for the First Protectorate Parliament.[3][4]
Bennet died at the age of 79 and was buried at Lawhitton on 7 July 1683.
References
[edit]- ^ "Hexworthy House". Launceston Then. 18 October 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Bennell-Bloye', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 106–141. Date accessed: 7 August 2011
- ^ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
- ^ Alumni Oxonienses states that he was MP for West Looe in the Rump Parliament and Restored Rump, but this is not corroborated by parliamentary references