About Henry Grey Bennet
Lived 1777 – 1836 (aged 58). Henry Grey Bennet was a British politician and geologist.
The Honourable Henry Grey Bennet FRS (2 December 1777 – 29 May 1836) was a British politician.
Life Bennet was the second of three sons and fourth of eight children of Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville, and his wife, Emma, Lady Tankerville (1752–1836), daughter of banker Sir James Colebrooke, 1st Baronet.
He was educated at Eton College (1788–92), served in the 1st Foot Guards, and entered Lincoln's Inn in 1798, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1799. He was called to the bar in 1803, practising on the Western Circuit. the Lyell Collection contains his account of the Island of Tenerife.
Bennet remained in exile and gave up his seat in parliament the following year. He and his wife lived near Lake Como in Italy until his death aged 58 in 1836.
Bennet was the author of several pamphlets, and a fellow of the Royal Society.
Family In 1816 Bennet married Gertrude Frances, daughter of Lord William Russell. They had one son and three daughters. Gertrude died in 1841.
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British politician
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Henry Grey Bennet was born on 2 December 1777.
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Henry Grey Bennet died on 29 May 1836 in Province of Como.
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Henry Grey Bennet was a politician and geologist.
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