Hanley Bennett (1815 – 30 April 1893) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in

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and migrated to

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in 1837. He worked as a shoemaker and surveyor, first at Cassilis, then at

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from 1843 and at Tamworth from 1855. Around 1843 he married Eliza Watson, with whom he had eight children. An alderman at Tamworth and South Singleton, he was elected to the

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for

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in 1872. He served until his defeat in 1880. Bennett died at Tamworth in 1893.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bennett, Hanley 1815 births 1893 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians