John Bennet, 1st Baron Ossulston (1616 – 11 February 1695) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1663 to 1679.
[1] He matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford on 24 April 1635, aged about 17 and was a student of Gray's Inn in 1636.
He was made a Knight of the Bath on 23 April 1661 at the coronation of Charles II[1] and was Lieutenant of the Gentlemen Pensioners.
He owed a lot of his influence to his brother, Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington.
[3] He supported the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and signed the petition for a free Parliament and the declaration to the Prince of Orange, but was reckoned among the opposition peers in 1690.