BENNETT, REV. JAMES. _b._ London 22 May 1774; preached his first sermon 24 Dec. 1792; Congregational minister at Romsey Feb. 1796; ordained 5 April 1797; theological tutor and pastor at Rotherham 22 Aug. 1813; pastor of Silver st. church, London Nov. 1828, and of Falcon sq. church, London 1843 to Nov. 1860; one of foreign secs. to London Missionary society May 1830 to 1832; chairman of Congregational Board 1840; author of _Lectures on preaching of Christ_ 1836; _Lectures on Acts of the Apostles_ 1846; author with Rev. David Bogue of _History of dissenters from the Revolution in 1688 to the year 1808 4 vols._ 1808, _2 ed. 3 vols._ 1833; wrote much in the _Eclectic Review_ and _Evangelical Mag._ _d._ 49 Gibson sq. Islington 4 Dec. 1862. _Memorials of the late Rev. James Bennett_ 1863. BENNETT, JAMES. Member of company of T.R. Birmingham many years; made his début in London at Lyceum theatre 18 March 1859 as Iago in _Othello_; acted in the provinces. _d._ London 9 March 1885. _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) 41, _portrait_. BENNETT, JAMES GORDON. _b._ New Mill, Keith, Banffshire 1 Sep. 1800; went to Halifax, Nova Scotia 1819; a printer’s reader, bookseller’s clerk and assistant in a newspaper office at Boston; went to New York about 1822; started the _New York Globe_ Oct. 1832 a two cent paper which lived only 30 days; partner with Messrs. Anderson and Smith of New York, printers 1835; founded the _New York Herald_ a one cent daily paper 6 May 1835 all of which he wrote; in 1841 the circulation was 20,000 and the receipts 100,000 dollars, during the civil war its circulation doubled; sent Henry M. Stanley to Central Africa in search of Dr. Livingstone at cost of £10,000 in 1871. (_m._ 6 June 1840 Henrietta Agnes Crean, she _d._ 31 March 1873). _d._ New York 1 June 1872. _Memoir of J. G. Bennett by a Journalist_ 1855, _portrait_; _F. Hudson’s Journalism in the United States_ 1873; _J. Parton’s Famous Americans of recent times_ (1867) 259–305; _Democratic Review xxxi_, 409–19 1853, _portrait_; _C. F. Wingate’s Views and interviews_ (1875) 275–86; _Graphic v_, 600, 611 (1872), _portrait_.