BENNET, Dr Thomas, an eminent divine, born at Salisbury on the 7th of May 1673, and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1700 he was made rector of St James's in Colchester; he afterwards became lecturer of St Olave's, Southwark, and morning-preacher at St Lawrence, Jewry; and at last he was presented to the vicarage of St Giles's, Cripplegate, worth L.500 a year. While he held this station, he engaged in several expensive lawsuits in defence of the rights of the church, to which he recovered L.150 a year. He wrote, 1. An Answer to the Dissenter's Plea for Separation; 2. A Confutation of Popery; 3. A Discourse of Schism; 4. An Answer to a book entitled Thomas against Bennet; 5. A Confutation of Quakerism; 6. A brief History of the joint Use of pre-conceived Forms of Prayer; 7. An Answer to Dr Clarke's Scripture doctrine of the Trinity; 8. A Paraphrase, with Annotations on the Book of Common Prayer; 9. A Hebrew Grammar; and other pieces. He died on the 9th October 1728, in the fifty-sixth year of his age.