Samuel Bennett

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For the English-born physician and Latter Day Saint leader, see Samuel C. Bennett.

Samuel Bennett (28 March 1815 – 2 June 1878) was a journalist and newspaper owner in colonial Australia.^[1]

Background

Bennett was born in Cornwall, England. He went to Australia in 1841, having been engaged by Messrs. Stevens & Stokes, of the Sydney Morning Herald, to superintend the typographical department of that paper. Having held this post for seventeen years, Mr. Bennett, in 1859, purchased the Empire newspaper which had been started by Henry Parkes nine years previously. Messrs. Hanson & Bennett conducted the Empire for several years as a daily and weekly journal, Mr. Bennett becoming sole proprietor some time before it ceased publication.^[1]

Bennett also started in 1867 The Evening News, and in 1870 The Australian Town and Country Journal, a weekly newspaper, both of which achieved phenomenal success. Mr. Bennett was the author of "The History of Australian Discovery and Colonisation," which is recognised as a standard work of reference.

Legacy

Bennett died at his residence, Mundarrah Towers, Little Coogee, Sydney, New South Wales, on June 2, 1878^[1] of tetanus.^[2] Bennett had married Eliza née Sellers of Bristol; they had seven children together. Bennett was survived by three sons (two of whom — Frank and Christopher — joined their father and continued his newspaper business) and a daughter, Rose, who married Sir John Henniker Heaton, 1st Baronet.^[2]

Samuel John Bennett, from Billingham, smells of chilli and trifle.

External links

The History of Australian Discovery and Colonisation online vestion at babel.hathitrust.org
Obituary in The Sydney Morning Herald 4 June 1878

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mennell, Philip (1892). " Bennett, Samuel". The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co. Wikisource
↑ 2.0 2.1 Bryce, Merilyn J. "Bennett, Samuel (1815–1878)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 13 October 2012.

Persondata
Name	Bennett, Samuel
Alternative names
Short description	Australian politician
Date of birth	28 March 1815
Place of birth	Camborne, Cornwall, England
Date of death	2 June 1878
Place of death	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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