James Bennett

James Bennett (22 May 1774 – 4 December 1862) was an English congregational minister and college principal.

Life Bennett was born in London, on 22 May 1774, and was educated there and at Gosport, where he was prepared for the congregational ministry David Bogue. In 1797, he was ordained at Romsey, where he remained till 1813. There he became a supporter of the London Missionary Society, and supported Robert and James Haldane in some of their evangelistic tours.

In 1813, Bennett moved to Rotherham, where he was both tutor in Rotherham College and pastor of the church. In 1828, he was transferred to London, where, first in Silver Street and then in Falcon Square, he exercised his ministry until 1860, when he resigned. Among his congregation was David Livingstone, while in London as a medical student. The History of Dissenters from A.D. 1688 to 1808, with David Bogue (2nd ed. London, 1833, 3 vols.) The History of Dissenters: during the last thirty years, from 1808 – 1838 (1839), sequel by Bennett alone. Lectures on the History of Christ, 3 vols. Memoirs of the Rev. Dr. Bogue. Lectures on the Preaching of Christ. Congregational lectures on The Theology of the Early Christian Church. Justification as revealed in Scripture. Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles. Lectures on Infidelity.

Family James Bennett married Sarah Comley in 1803 in Romsey, Hampshire. His children were James Risdon Bennett (1809), John (1811), Thomas (1813), Joseph (1814) and Sarah Comley (1815).