Ferdinando Bennet

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]

Ferdinando Bennet
Personal information
Full name
Ferdinando Wallis Bennet
Born(1850-12-13)13 December 1850
St Newlyn East, Cornwall
Died17 October 1929(1929-10-17) (aged 78)
Northam, Devon
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm slow
Source: Cricinfo, 8 March 2017

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
  1. "Ferdinando Bennet". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  2. Bennet, Col. Ferdinando Wallis, Obituaries in 1930, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1931. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  3. The Edinburgh Gazette, 10 January 1871. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  4. Burke's, 1937, p.136
  5. 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.)
  6. Ferdinando Bennet, CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 March 2017.


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