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.[2]

References

  1. ^ University College, A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford, 1954, pp. 61–81
  2. ^ 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 byEdward Farrer Master of University College, Oxford 1691–1692 Succeeded byArthur Charlett


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