Another of Edward's close relatives was James Richard Bennett (died 1830), a distinguished lecturer in anatomy in Paris.

Bennett attended Hamblin and Porter's School in Cork, and the Academic Institute in Hardcourt Street.

He studied fractures, dislocations and bone diseases, recording them at the Pathology Museum at the Trinity College.

He described his eponymous fracture at the British Medical Association meeting in Cork in 1880.

[2] He is said to have introduced antiseptic technique to Dublin, and became president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.