Thomas Bennet, also spelt Benet, was an English academic at the

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. University College
''A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford'', 1954, pp. 61–81 He was an

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and

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and in 1691 was elected as

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of his college.Darwall-Smith, Robin, ''A History of University College, Oxford''.

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, 2008. . Pages 207–208, 215, 216, 219–220, 249. 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.

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17th-century English educators Alumni of University College, Oxford Fellows of University College, Oxford Masters of University College, Oxford Year of birth missing 1692 deaths {{UOxford-stub