Ferdinando Bennet

Ferdinando Bennet
Personal information
Full name	Ferdinando Wallis Bennet
Born	13 December 1850; St Newlyn East, Cornwall
Died	17 October 1929 (aged 78); Northam, Devon
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm slow
	Source: Cricinfo, 8 March 2017

Lieutenant-Colonel Ferdinando Wallis Bennet (13 December 1850 – 17 October 1929) was an English soldier who played in four first-class cricket matches between 1874 and 1878.^[1]

Bennet was born at Tresillian House near St Newlyn East in Cornwall in 1850. He went to Sherborne School before attending the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.^[2]^[3] He was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, brevetted to Colonel, at the end of his military career. As a Lieutenant he was British Vice-Consul of Anatolia based in Adana between 1880 and 1882.^[4]^[5]

Bennet played in four first-class cricket matches between 1874 and 1878. He played three matches in 1874, once for each of Kent County Cricket Club, Gentlemen of the South and a side representing Kent and Gloucestershire. In 1878 he made one appearance for MCC.^[6]

Bennet married Evelyn Palmer and was a JP in Devon in later life.^[4] He died in Northam, Devon in 1929 aged 78.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Ferdinando Bennet". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
^ Bennet, Col. Ferdinando Wallis, Obituaries in 1930, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1931. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
^ The Edinburgh Gazette, 10 January 1871. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
^ ^a ^b Burke's, 1937, p.136
^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 52–53. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 6 August 2022.)
^ Ferdinando Bennet, CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 March 2017.