George Bennet (missionary)

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

Life

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

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.^[4] Bennet and Tyerman made an extended stay in Tahiti, and Bennet's letters from there were published in the Sheffield Iris by James Montgomery.^[5] Tyerman died in Madagascar, where they had set up missions with the support of King Radama I.^[6]

After his voyage Bennet gave historical artifacts that he had collected to the Natural History Museum. He died in London on 13 November 1841.^[7] He is buried with a monument in his memory in Sheffield General Cemetery. with an inscription.

References

^ Alan Kidd; David Nicholls (8 October 1999). Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle-Class Identity in Britain, 1800-1940. Manchester University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-7190-5676-5.
^ Montgomery, James; Daniel Tyerman; George Bennet (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, Volume 3. London Missionary Society.
^ 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.
^ Fan, Fa-ti (2004). British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press. pp. 44-45
^ Alan Kidd; David Nicholls (8 October 1999). Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle-Class Identity in Britain, 1800-1940. Manchester University Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-7190-5676-5.
^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Tyerman, Daniel" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ Register of Missionaries, Deputations, Etc., from 1796 to 1896. 1896. p. 353.

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[1] Alan Kidd; David Nicholls (8 October 1999). Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle-Class Identity in Britain, 1800-1940. Manchester University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-7190-5676-5.

[2] Montgomery, James; Daniel Tyerman; George Bennet (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, Volume 3. London Missionary Society.

[3] 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.

[4] Fan, Fa-ti (2004). British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press. pp. 44-45

[5] Alan Kidd; David Nicholls (8 October 1999). Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle-Class Identity in Britain, 1800-1940. Manchester University Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-7190-5676-5.

[6] Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Tyerman, Daniel" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[7] Register of Missionaries, Deputations, Etc., from 1796 to 1896. 1896. p. 353.

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