George Bennet (missionary)

George Bennet
Born(1774-04-16)16 April 1774
Died13 November 1841(1841-11-13) (aged 67)
London, England
Resting place
St Thomas's Square Chapel burial ground, Hackney, London
Occupations
  • Missionary
  • philanthropist
Known forLondon Missionary Society deputation voyage, 1821–1829

George Bennet (16 April 1774 – 13 November 1841) was an English missionary from Sheffield, Yorkshire. He travelled widely in Asia.

Life

Bennet was a Congregationalist organiser in Sheffield.[1] He was also a philanthropist.[2] In 1821 he set out with Daniel Tyerman, supported financially by the London Missionary Society. They travelled together to China, Southeast Asia, and India.[3][4]

Bennet stopped in Macau during his Pacific voyage. He was impressed by the garden and aviary of opium trader Thomas Beale, devoting 45 pages of his travelogue to them.[5] Bennet and Tyerman made an extended stay in Tahiti, and Bennet's letters from there were published in the Sheffield Iris by James Montgomery.[6] Tyerman died in Madagascar, where they had set up missions with the support of King Radama I.[7]

Bennet also travelled to the Sandwich Islands, New Zealand, New South Wales, Java, Singapore and Calcutta.[8]

After his voyage, Bennet gave historical artifacts that he had collected to the London Natural History Museum. He died in London on 13 November 1841.[9] His funeral was held at the St Thomas's Square Chapel, Hackney, and he was interred in the adjoining burial ground.[10] There is an inscribed monument in his memory in Sheffield General Cemetery.

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References

Citations

  1. ↑ Kidd & Nicholls 1999, p. 52.
  2. ↑ Middleton, Roy. "John Love in London (Part 5): The First Mission of the London Missionary Society" (PDF). Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal. 11: 143.
  3. ↑ Montgomery, James; Tyerman, Daniel; Bennet, George (1832). Journal of Voyages and Travels by the Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet, Esq: Deputed from the London Missionary Society, to Visit Their Various Stations in the South Sea Islands, China, India, etc. Between the Years 1821 and 1829. Vol. 3. London Missionary Society.
  4. ↑ Porter, Andrew N. (2004). Religion versus Empire?: British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 1700–1914. Manchester University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-7190-2823-6.
  5. ↑ Fan, Fa-ti (2004). British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 44–45.
  6. ↑ Kidd & Nicholls 1999, p. 54.
  7. ↑ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Tyerman, Daniel" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  8. ↑ "Guide to the Collections held by the Sheffield City Archives (M2722-M2726)". National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ Register of Missionaries, Deputations, etc., from 1796 to 1896. 1896. p. 353.
  10. ↑ Sheffield and Rotherham Independent. 27 November 1841. p. 6. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Works cited

Further reading

  • Hiney, Tom (2000). On the Missionary Trail: The Classic Georgian Adventure of Two Englishmen, Sent on a Journey Around the World, 1821–29. Chatto & Windus. ISBN 978-0-7011-6710-3.
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