BENNETT, THOMAS RANDLE (_youngest son of John Bennett of Manchester, timber merchant_). _b._ Manchester 1821; ed. at the gr. sch. and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846, special pleader 1848; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1855; lectured on law and history at London Working men’s college Bloomsbury; an original member of English Church Union 1859, one of its central council; examiner to the Inns of Court 1877–78; author of _A popular manual of the constitutional history of England_ 1862 and of several political pamphlets. _d._ Shrewbridge hall, Nantwich 23 Feb. 1885. _Law Times lxxviii_, 343 (1885). BENNETT, WILLIAM. _b._ Newmarket; enlisted into Cambridge militia 10 Oct. 1797 aged 20; enlisted into 46 Foot 18 March 1799, and into 32 Foot 15 June 1803, discharged 18 Aug. 1814; assisted at burial of Sir John Moore Jany. 1809. _d._ Inchicore, Ireland 23 Jany. 1872 aged 95, but generally reputed to be 105. _W. J. Thoms’s Human longevity_ (1873) 235–36. BENNETT, WILLIAM. _b._ 1798; made his début in London at Haymarket theatre as Jack Junk in _The birthday_ 15 May 1812; member of English opera company; played old men at Drury Lane about 1829; secretary to Drury Lane theatrical fund. _d._ Bellevue cottage, Walthamstow 8 Aug. 1875. _The Oddfellow i_, 77 (1839), _portrait_. BENNETT, WILLIAM. _b._ 1796; solicitor at Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire 1819 to death; clerk to county magistrates 1834 to death; author under pseudonym of Lee Gibbons of _The Cavalier 3 vols._ 1821; _Malpas 3 vols._ 1822; _The King of the Peak 3 vols._ 1823; _Owain Goch a tale of the Revolution 3 vols._ 1827; these books are also attributed to Thomas Roscoe jun.; contributed to the _Reliquary_ many papers on archæology of Derbyshire 1862–72. _d._ Chapel en le Frith 20 April 1879. BENNETT, WILLIAM MINEARD. _b._ Exeter 1778; pupil of Sir Thomas Lawrence; a painter of portraits and miniatures; exhibited at the R.A. 1812–16 and 1834–35; lived many years in Paris; lived at Exeter 1844 to death; composed many glees and songs which were popular in Paris and Naples. _d._ Hill’s buildings, St. Sidwell’s, Exeter 17 Oct. 1858.