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Benett, Thomas, ca. 1729-1797
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ca. 1729-1797
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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.
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GB 2014
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.