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His father, an ‘uncommonly learned’ clergyman, who kept a school at Abingdon, died when he was three, and his mother, by her...</span> </div> <span class="views-field-view-node"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1790-1820/member/abbot-charles-1757-1829">Read more</a></span> </span> </td> <td class="col-2"> <div class="views-field-field-web-title-value"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1660-1690/member/bennet-sir-henry-1618-85"><h3>BENNET, Sir Henry (1618-85)</h3></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-nid"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1660-1690/member/bennet-sir-henry-1618-85"><img src="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/files/imagecache/thumbnail/Henry_Bennet_1853_0.jpg" alt="" title="" width="80" height="80" class="imagecache imagecache-thumbnail"/></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field-phpcode"> <span class="field-content">Bennet was educated for the Church, though at Oxford he appears to have occupied himself chiefly in the study of Latin poetry and the composition of English verse. In 1643 he entered the service of the secretary of state, George Digby (later 2nd Earl of Bristol). Although a civilian, he took part...</span> </div> <span class="views-field-view-node"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1660-1690/member/bennet-sir-henry-1618-85">Read more</a></span> </span> </td> <td class="col-3 col-last"> <div class="views-field-field-web-title-value"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1660-1690/member/booth-sir-george-1622-84"><h3>BOOTH, Sir George (1622-84)</h3></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-nid"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1660-1690/member/booth-sir-george-1622-84"><img src="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/files/imagecache/thumbnail/d29970.jpg" alt="" title="" width="80" height="80" class="imagecache imagecache-thumbnail"/></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field-phpcode"> <span class="field-content">Booth was descended from a younger branch of a Lancashire family, settled at Dunham Massey since 1433. His great-grandfather represented Cheshire in 1572. His father died before the Civil War, but his grandfather was a parliamentary supporter, and he himself was in arms for the same cause, and sat...</span> </div> <span class="views-field-view-node"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1660-1690/member/booth-sir-george-1622-84">Read more</a></span> </span> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> </div> <div id="footer-gradient"> </div> <div id="footer"><div id="copyright"> © Crown copyright and The History of Parliament Trust 1964-2020 </div> <div id="footer-links"> <ul> <li><a href="/about/terms-and-conditions" title="Terms & Conditions">Terms & Conditions</a></li> <li><a href="/help/privacy-and-cookies">Privacy & Cookies</a></li> <li><a href="/about/faqs">FAQs</a></li> <li><a href="/commonly-used-abbreviations" title="Abbreviations">Abbreviations</a></li> <li><a href="mailto:website@histparl.ac.uk">Contact Us</a></li> </ul> </div></div> <div id="ihr-logo"><a href="http://www.history.ac.uk" target="_blank"><img src="/files/IHR-maintained-logo.png" alt="IHR Logo" /></a></div> </div> </body> </html>