Henry Grey Bennet

[1] He was educated at Eton College (1788–92), served in the 1st Foot Guards, and entered Lincoln's Inn in 1798, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1799.

[1] From 1813 to 1815 he was the second president of the Geological Society of London;[3] the Lyell Collection contains his account of the Island of Tenerife.

[1] The sudden ending of Bennet's career in 1824 (apparently due to the death from consumption of his only son six months after that of a daughter) was followed by a continental trip in 1825.

His reputation was ruined by the threat of prosecution for importuning a young male servant at Spa in August 1825.

Bennet represented himself as the victim of a conspiracy to extort money, but the facts of the case worked against him.