Thomas Bennet (academic)

For the English clergyman, see Thomas Bennet.

For the martyr, see Thomas Benet (martyr).

Thomas Bennet (aka Thomas Benet^[1]) was an Oxford academic and administrator. He was an undergraduate, Fellow, and Master of University College, Oxford.^[2]

Bennet was a relative of Sir Simon Bennet, also an undergraduate of University College, whose settlement to the College in 1662 funded the Bennet Fellowship.^[2] Thomas Bennet himself held this Fellowship for a while. This was seen as a barrier to becoming Master of the College by the other fellows, but after a dispensation he was elected on 3 March 1691.

References

^ University College, A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford, 1954, pp. 61–81.
^ ^a ^b Darwall-Smith, Robin, A History of University College, Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-928429-0. Pages 207–208, 215, 216, 219–220, 249.

Academic offices
Preceded by Edward Farrer	Master of University College, Oxford 1691–1692	Succeeded by Arthur Charlett

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Name	Bennet, Thomas
Alternative names	Thomas Benet
Short description	Master of University College, Oxford
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