Sir Levinus Bennet, 2nd Baronet

Sir Levinus Bennet, 2nd Baronet (1631 – 5 December 1693)[1] was a British Tory politician.

He was the oldest son of Sir Thomas Bennet, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary Munck, daughter of Levinus Munck.[2] In 1667, he succeeded his father as baronet.[3] Bennet was educated at Gray's Inn in 1644.[2] He was appointed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in 1652[2] and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridgeshire from 1679 until his death in 1693.[4]

On 6 July 1653, he married Judith Boevey, daughter of William Boevey at Alhallows, London, and had by her two sons and seven daughters.[2] Bennet died in London and was buried in Babraham a week later.[5] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only surviving son Richard.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsB2.htm. Retrieved 14 June 2009. 
  2. ^ a b c d Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley and D. W. Hayton, ed (2002). The House of Commons, 1690-1715. vol. III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 173–174. 
  3. ^ a b Burke, John (1841). John Bernhard Burke. ed. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland (2nd ed.). London: Scott, Webster, and Geary. pp. 57. 
  4. ^ "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Cambridgeshire". http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons1.htm. Retrieved 13 June 2009. 
  5. ^ "ThePeerage - Sir Levinus Bennet, 2nd Bt". http://www.thepeerage.com/p13918.htm#i139176. Retrieved 25 January 2007. 
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Gerard Russell
Edward Partherich		 Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire
1679 – 1693
With: Sir Robert Cotton		 Succeeded by
Sir Robert Cotton
The Lord Cutts
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
Thomas Bennet		 Baronet
 (of Baberham)
1667 – 1693		 Succeeded by
Richard Bennet