Bennett, WILLIAM

Bennett, WILLIAM, born in 1804, graduated B.A. at Oxford in 1837, and, taking orders, was incumbent of Portman Chapel, and of St Paul's, Knightsbridge. The latter charge he resigned in 1851, in consequence of an anti-Tractarian outcry; but he was almost immediately presented to the vicarage of Frome in Somersetshire. An extreme High Churchman, he was author of many theological works, but is chiefly remembered through the case of Sheppard v. Bennett (1870-72), wherein his teaching on the Real Presence was pronounced to be not inconsistent with the doctrine of the Church of England. He died 15th August 1886.