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.
[1] He was also a magistrate and in 1650, he and 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.