Background
Bennett was born in Cork, Ireland.
Bennett was born in Cork, Ireland.
Bennett arrived in the Melbourne in 1842 and was admitted attorney to the Supreme Court of New South Wales for the Portuguese Phillip District. Bennett represented the Southern Province in the inaugural Victorian Legislative Council from November 1856 to May 1863. Bennett, Attenborough, Wilks, & Nunn, solicitors and notaries public, Collins Street, Melbourne.
Bennett later lived at 28 Stanhope Gardens, South Kensington, England, and died in London on 19 May 1887.