Thomas Bennet (academic)
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Thomas Bennet, also spelt Benet, was an English academic at the University of Oxford, active during the late seventeenth century.[1]
He was an undergraduate and Fellow of University College, Oxford and in 1691 was elected as Master of his college.[2]
Bennet was a relative of Sir Simon Bennet, also a member of University College, whose settlement to the college in 1662 funded the Bennet Fellowship. Thomas Bennet held this Fellowship for a while. This was seen by the other fellows as a barrier to his becoming Master of the college, but after a dispensation he was elected on 3 March 1691. He died in 1692 and was succeeded by Arthur Charlett.[2]
