Sir Robert Bennet was an English
surveyor
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ca ...
and politician who sat in the
House of Commons from 1621 to 1622.
Bennet was the grandson of
Robert Bennet,
Bishop of Hereford
The Bishop of Hereford is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Hereford in the Province of Canterbury.
The episcopal see is centred in the Hereford, City of Hereford where the bishop's seat (''cathedra'') is in the Hereford Cathedr ...
. He was surveyor of the works
Windsor Castle. He was knighted at Greenwich on 11 June 1619.
Knights of England
/ref> In 1621, Bennet was elected Member of Parliament for Windsor.
References
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English MPs 1621–1622