Robert Bennet

Robert Bennet (Bennett) (died 1617) was an English bishop.

He was born in Baldock, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1567, and becoming a Fellow.[1][2] As a young man he was noted as a tennis player.[3] He offended Elizabeth I of England by preaching against her proposed marriage to François, Duke of Anjou.[2]

He became Dean of Windsor in 1595, and Bishop of Hereford in 1603.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ Bennett, Robert in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
  2. ^ a b Francis Overend White, Lives of the Elizabethan bishops of the Anglican Church (1898), pp. 411-6.
  3. ^ A. Hugh Fisher, The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See, p. 105; online text.
  4. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Herbert Westphaling		 Bishop of Hereford
1603–1617		 Succeeded by
Francis Godwin