Levinus Bennet

Sir Levinus Bennet, 2nd Baronet (1631 – 5 December 1693)[1] was a British Tory politician.

Origins

He was the oldest son of Sir Thomas Bennet, 1st Baronet of Babraham, Cambridgeshire and his wife Mary Munck, daughter of Levinus Munck.[2] In 1667, he succeeded his father as baronet.[3]

Career

Bennet was educated at Gray's Inn in 1644.[2] He was appointed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in 1652[2] and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridgeshire from 1679 until his death in 1693.[4]

Marriage and progeny

On 6 July 1653, at All Hallows-on-the-Wall, London, he married Judith Boevey, the daughter of William Boevey (d.1661) of Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire, son of the Dutch-born Huguenot Andrew Boevey (d.1625) and brother of the merchant, lawyer and philosopher James Boevey (1622–1696). They had issue two sons and seven daughters.[2]

Death and burial

Bennet died in London and was buried in Babraham a week later.[5]

Succession

He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only surviving son Richard.[3]

References

  1. "Leigh Rayment – Baronetage". Retrieved 14 June 2009.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley and D. W. Hayton, ed. (2002). The House of Commons, 1690–1715. vol. III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 173–174.
  3. 1 2 Burke, John (1841). John Bernhard Burke, ed. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland (2nd ed.). London: Scott, Webster, and Geary. p. 57.
  4. "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Cambridgeshire". Retrieved 13 June 2009.
  5. "ThePeerage – Sir Levinus Bennet, 2nd Bt". Retrieved 25 January 2007.
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Gerard Russell
Edward Partherich
Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire
1679–1693
With: Sir Robert Cotton
Succeeded by
Sir Robert Cotton
The Lord Cutts
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
Thomas Bennet
Baronet
(of Baberham)
1667–1693
Succeeded by
Richard Bennet


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