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First name:
Daniel
Middle name:
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Last name:
Bennett
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Primary cohort:
London
Sex:
Male
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Political Offices Held
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Geographic experiences
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Internal migrant:
Don't know
Foreign born:
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Supplier to slave trade voyages:
Don't know
Creditor to slave trade voyages:
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Philanthropy:
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Plantation owner:
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Sources:
PROB 11/1718/149
An account of Daniel Bennett & Co. is given at http://www.faringdon.org/uploads/1/4/7/6/14765418/extract_from_owners_in_the_british_southern_whale_fishery.pdf.
W.D. Rubinstein, Who were the rich? Volume 2 1825-1839; Jane M. Clayton and Charles A. Clayton, Shipowners investing in the South Sea Whale Fishery from Britain: 1775-1815 p. 88.
Other Individuals
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Organisations
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Crossings (1)
Birth
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Death
Date:
14/10/1826
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Burial
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Location:
High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire)
Memorial details:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197629224/daniel-bennett?_gl=1*esm15x*_ga*MTMwNjE4Nzc5OC4xNjI4ODQ2MzUx*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*MTY1MzYzOTg5NC43MC4xLjE2NTM2Mzk5MTguMA..
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Universities
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Inns of Court
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Military training
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Imperial positions
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Apprenticeships
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Livery company affiliations
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Other business activities
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Was slave trading profitable:
Don't know
Will
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Courts:
PCC
He left his estate at Faringdon to his son William Bennett of Blackheath, with some land held back for his daughter Sarah Goodwin, who also inherited his estate at Malmesbury and property at West Cowes. He left £200 p.a. to Anne Elizabeth Boughton whom he was contemplating marrying, secured on his estate at Rotherhithe which he left to his son William. He ordered mortgages of £3000 and £16000 on his estates be paid off from his personal estate in Dan. Bennett & Son and left a further £10,000 from the firm to his daughter Sarah Goodwin, as well as further monetary legacies to family and friends.
Legacies
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