- GB-2014-WSA-03025
- Person
- ca. 1729-1797
BENETT, THOMAS, second son of Thomas Benett, Norton Bavant, Wilts., Joint Registrar, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and Etheldreda, dau. of Most Rev. William Wake DD, Archbishop of Canterbury; b.; adm. (aged 15) Apr 1744 (Peirson's); left 1747; Wadham Coll. Oxford, fellow commoner, matr. 4 Jun 1747; adm. Middle Temple 2 Apr 1747; ? adm. Inner Temple from Middle Temple year 1752/3 (as Bennett), called to bar 13 Jun 1755, sold chambers in Inner Temple 29 May 1767; of Pythouse and Norton Bavant, Wilts.; High Sheriff, Wiltshire 1758; m. 1st, 7 Jun 1766 (IGI), Frances, dau. of Rev. Richard Reynolds, Little Paxton, Hunts.; m. 2nd, 3 Jan 1771 (IGI), Catherine, dau. of John Darell, York Street, St. James’s, London; d. 16 May 1797.