George Bennet

George Bennet (c. 1750 – 20 October 1835), originally from Scotland, served as a presbyterian minister at the Annetwell Street Protestant meeting house at Carlisle in the far north-west of England between 1791 and 1807. He was the last presbyterian minister at Annetwell Street, his successors being from England and identified as "Independents" or, as the nineteenth century wore on, "Congregationalists".

Life George Bennet was born at Dysart, a trading port across the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh. Sources give his birth year variously as 1750 (or, less plausibly, 1760). He received his university education at the University of St Andrews, and was licensed by the presbytery at Dunkeld on 3 September 1782. He was ordained as minister of Lady Glenorchy's Chapel in Annetwell Street at Carlisle on 1 June 1791. Another substantial book, published at Carlisle in 1800, was entitled, "Olam Hanashamoth, or a View of the Intermediate State as it appears in the Records of the Old and New Testaments".