John Bennett (Victorian politician)

John Barter Bennett (c.1824 – 19 May 1887) was a lawyer and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council.^[1]

Early life

Bennett was born in Cork, Ireland.^[1]

Colonial Australia

Bennett arrived in the Melbourne in 1842 and was admitted attorney to the Supreme Court of New South Wales for the Port Phillip District.^[1] Bennett represented the Southern Province in the inaugural Victorian Legislative Council from November 1856 to May 1863.^[1] Bennett was senior partner in the firm of Messrs. Bennett, Attenborough, Wilks, & Nunn, solicitors and notaries public, Collins Street, Melbourne.^[2]

Bennett later lived at 28 Stanhope Gardens, South Kensington, England, and died in London on 19 May 1887.^[1] He was married to Kate and had two daughters; he left his estate of £43,000 to his family.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "John Barter Bennett". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
^ "Obituary". South Australian Register. 23 May 1887. p. 5. Retrieved 1 October 2014 – via Trove.
^ "Wills and Bequests". Table Talk. 30 September 1887. p. 3. Retrieved 1 October 2014 – via Trove.

Victorian Legislative Council
New creation	Member for Southern Province November 1856 – May 1863 With: William J. T. Clarke 1856–61, 62– Joseph Sutherland 1861–62 Thomas Power 1856–63 Thomas McCombie 1856–59 Gideon Rutherford 1859–60 William Degraves 1860– Donald Kennedy 1856–	Succeeded by John Bear

[parl-1] "John Barter Bennett". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2022.

[obit-2] "Obituary". South Australian Register. 23 May 1887. p. 5. Retrieved 1 October 2014 – via Trove.

[3] "Wills and Bequests". Table Talk. 30 September 1887. p. 3. Retrieved 1 October 2014 – via Trove.

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