Gervase Bennet
Gervase Bennet (born 1612) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England between 1653 and 1659. Bennet coined the term "Quakers" to refer to the Religious Society of Friends.
Bennet was Mayor of Derby in 1645 when there was a plague in Derby.[1] He was also a magistrate and in 1650 with Nathaniel Barton conducted the trial of George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends. Fox told the bench "Tremble at the word of the Lord", to which Bennett replied that the only "quaker" in court was him, after which the nickname Quakers to refer to members of the Society entered common parlance.[2]
In 1653 Bennet was nominated for the Barebones Parliament as representative for Derbyshire. In 1654, he was elected Member of Parliament for Derby in the First Protectorate Parliament and was returned in the Second Protectorate Parliament in 1656 and the Third Protectorate Parliament of 1659.[3]
Bennet owned estates of Littleover and Snelston. He married a coheiress of the Rowe family, and had a son, Robert. He was aged 50 in 1662 and the estate was sold in 1682.[4]
References
- ↑ The history and gazetteer of the county of Derby by Stephen Glover, 1831, accessed 31 October 2010
- ↑ Joseph Twadell Shipley The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
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- ↑ 'General history: Gentry families of uncertain survival', Magna Britannia: volume 5: Derbyshire (1817), pp. CLIII-CLXVII Date accessed: 24 October 2010
| Parliament of England | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Derbyshire 1653 With: Nathaniel Barton |
Succeeded by Nathaniel Barton Thomas Sanders Edward Gell John Gell |
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Member of Parliament for Derby 1654-1659 |
Succeeded by Nathaniel Hallowes |
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- 1612 births
- Year of death unknown
- People of the Stuart period
- Mayors of places in Derbyshire
- English MPs 1653 (Barebones)
- English MPs 1654–55 (Protectorate)
- English MPs 1656–58 (Protectorate)
- English MPs 1659 (Protectorate)
- Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Derbyshire
