James Bennett

James Bennett (10 May 1785 – 29 January 1856) was a British printer and book seller who became a publisher. In 1830 he produced a history of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England. Well regarded sources also describe him as a topographer, but without identifying his contribution to topography. in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, roughly 15 miles (24 km) north-east of Bristol, sited on low ground a few miles inland to the east of the Severn Estuary. His father, an independent farmer called John Bennett, was father to thirteen recorded children, of whom James was the eighth. James attended school at nearby Stone and then embarked on an apprenticeship with George Robbins, a printer in Bath, at that time in the adjacent county of Somerset. in the "Tewkesbury Register and Magazine" which he published regularly till 1849.