Thomas Bennet (aka Thomas BenetUniversity College
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, 2008. . Pages 207–208, 215, 216, 219–220, 249. Bennet was a relative of Sir Simon Bennet, also an undergraduate of University College, whose settlement to the College in 1662 funded the Bennet Fellowship. Thomas Bennet himself held this Fellowship for a while. This was seen as a barrier to becoming Master of the College by the other fellows, but after a dispensation he was elected on 3 March 1691.

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