Robert Bennet (surveyor)

Sir Robert Bennet was an English surveyor and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622.

Bennet was the grandson of Robert Bennet, Bishop of Hereford. He was surveyor of the works Windsor Castle.[1] He was knighted at Greenwich on 11 June 1619.[2] In 1621, Bennet was elected Member of Parliament for Windsor.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Bernard Burke General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales
  2. ↑ Knights of England
  3. ↑ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Sir Charles Howard
Samuel Backhouse		 Member of Parliament for Windsor
1621-1622
With: Sir Charles Howard		 Succeeded by
Edward Sayer
Thomas Woodward
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