Thomas Bennet (academic) explained

Thomas Bennet, also spelt Benet, was an English academic at the University of Oxford.[1]

He was an undergraduate and Fellow of University College, Oxford and in 1691 was elected as Master of his college.[2]

Bennet was a relative of Sir Simon Bennet, also a member of University College, whose settlement to the college in 1662 funded the Bennet Fellowship. Thomas Bennet held this Fellowship for a while. This was seen by the other fellows as a barrier to his becoming Master of the college, but after a dispensation he was elected on 3 March 1691.He died in 1692 and was succeeded by Arthur Charlett.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63872 University College
  2. Darwall-Smith, Robin, A History of University College, Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2008. . Pages 207–208, 215, 216, 219–220, 249.