Thomas Boutflower Bennett

Thomas Boutflower Bennett (1808- 14 September 1894) was an early colonist of South Australia, remembered as a schoolmaster at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution and at Saint Peter's College.

He married Elizabeth (14 January 1811 11 February 1899) and with two children arrived at Holdfast Bay on the "Somersetshire" on 24 August 1839.[1][2]

He started a distillery on the banks of the River Torrens at Klemzig, but was closed down by the Governor George Grey[2]

An attempt at sheep farming at Lovely Valley was unsuccessful, so he got a job at Moonta as accountant in the Boord Brothers store, then joined the rush to the Victorian goldfields.[2]

In June 1861[3] he joined the staff of J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution, and for 10 years taught English and bookkeeping and assisting in the school's running, then around 1871 when the school transferred to Parkside, took a position with St. Peter's College, perhaps for its greater proximity to his Payneham Road, Stepney home.[4] He retired from teaching late 1879 or early 1880.[5] He sold the family house in August 1894, having moved to live with his son in Port Lincoln, where he died.[6]

Family

N. W. O. Bennett and W. O. Bennett married sisters Rebecca Caroline Raphael and Laura Raphael on 9 June and 4 October 1877 respectively.[11][12]

External links

References

  1. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54410591
  2. 1 2 3 Death of Mrs A. W. Bennett South Australian Register 21 February 1899 p.5 accessed 26 September 2011
    perhaps misprint for E. W. (Elizabeth Wiggins?)
  3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article835189
  4. Death of Mr Thomas B. Bennett South Australian Register 15 September 1894 accessed 26 September 2011
    According to this reference he was buried in Port Lincoln. Remarkably, he has a gravestone in Moonta cemetery which mentions SPSC but not AEI.
  5. Presentation to Mr. Thomas Bennett South Australian Register 24 January 1880 Supplement p.4 accessed 26 September 2011
  6. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article53653433
  7. Obituary South Australian Register 7 December 1869 Supplement p.4 accessed 8 May 2011
  8. An Old Northern Territory Tragedy South Australian Register 17 September 1894 p.3 accessed 26 September 2011
    It was suggested the attack was in retribution for the slaying of several natives after the murder of Marie Ward at Escape Cliffs several years before
  9. http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/elac/2008/09/a_good_win_1.html
    English-native vocabulary of the Woolner dialect, Adelaide River, N.A., [1869] held in State Library of South Australia (ref. GRG 35/256)
  10. Death of Mr W. O. Bennett South Australian Register 7 March 1906 p.4 accessed 26 September 2011
  11. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40779713
  12. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40471062
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