Background
Bennett was a Wiltshireman, the son of William Francis Bennett, of Chilmark.
Bennett was a Wiltshireman, the son of William Francis Bennett, of Chilmark.
Born in Mequon, Wisconsin, he worked on a farm and studied surveying, stenography and taught school.
He held several administrative posts in medical establishments, including at Street George"s Hospital, where he was a senior surgeon. Bennett introduced London doctors to massage as a treatment modality for new fractures in 1898 and he established a department of massage at Saint George´son However, his most important contribution to medical science was a paper in which he introduced the surgical procedure of posterior rhizotomy for the relief of spasmodic pain in a lower extremity.
During the War 1914–1919 he relinquished all private affairs to take up work with British Red Cross and the Order of Street John
Bennett married first, in 1882, Isabel Dickinson (died 1911), daughter of Thomas Dickinson.