Sir Thomas Bennett (died 1627), father of the first Baronet, was Lord Mayor of London from 1603 to 1604.
The second Baronet sat as member of parliament for Cambridgeshire.
The Bennet Baronetcy, of Grubet in the County of Roxburgh, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 18 November 1670 for William Bennet.
The second Baronet was one of the Scottish representatives to the first Parliament of Great Britain.
The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet circa 1765.