About Henry R. Bennett
Lived 1819 – 1896 (aged 76–77). Henry R. Bennett was a British organist.
Henry Robert Bennett (c. 1819 – c. 1896) was an English organist who held the position of Organist and Master of the Choristers at Chichester Cathedral from 1848 to 1860.
Career Bennett was a pupil of, and a chorister under his father, Thomas Bennett, at Magdalen College, Oxford. He succeeded his father as Organist and Master of the Choristers at Chichester Cathedral in 1848, spending one year on probation. He was also organist at St John the Evangelist's Church, Chichester in 1849 - again succeeding his father.
Personal life Henry Bennett's father was Thomas Bennett, and his brother was Alfred Bennett. Alfred was organist at New College, Oxford and was killed after falling from a stage coach en route to the Three Choirs Festival, in 1830.
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English organist
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Henry R. Bennett was born in 1819.
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Henry R. Bennett died in 1896.
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Henry R. Bennett was an organist.
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