George Bennet (missionary)

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

He was impressed by the garden and aviary of opium trader Thomas Beale, devoting 45 pages of his travelogue to them.

[6] Tyerman died in Madagascar, where they had set up missions with the support of King Radama I.

[7] Bennet also travelled to the Sandwich Islands, New Zealand, New South Wales, Java, Singapore and Calcutta.

[8] After his voyage Bennet gave historical artifacts that he had collected to the London Natural History Museum.