Robert Bennet (MP)

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.

Bennet was the eldest son of Richard Bennet, of Lawhitton, 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.^[1]

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.^[2] ^[3]

Bennet died at the age of 79 and was buried at Lawhitton on 7 July 1683.

References

^ 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Bennell-Bloye', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 106-141. Date accessed: 07 August 2011
^ Browne Willis Notitia parliamentaria, or, An history of the counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales: ... The whole extracted from mss. and printed evidences 1750 pp229-239
^ 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

Parliament of England
Preceded by Not represented in Rump Parliament	Member of Parliament for Cornwall 1653 With: Francis Langdon Anthony Rous John Bawden	Succeeded by Thomas Ceely Anthony Rous Walter Moyle Anthony Nichols Richard Carter Charles Boscawen Thomas Gewen James Launce
Preceded by Not represented in Barebones Parliament	Member of Parliament for Launceston 1654	Succeeded by Thomas Gewen

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Name	Bennet, Robert
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Date of birth	1605
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Date of death	1683
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