Richard Henry Alexander Bennet FRS (11 May 1743 – 14 March 1814) was a British landowner, who represented Newport in Parliament from 1770 to 1774.
[1] In 1756, Humphry Morice, who controlled the electoral patronage of Newport, returned Richard Bull for one of the seats there.
In 1770, when William de Grey resigned to contest Cambridge University, a vacancy arose at Newport, and Morice put Bennet into Parliament alongside his stepfather.
Like his patron, Bennet was an administration supporter, although he voted in opposition on the naval captains' petition for additional pay in 1773 and the bill in 1774 to make Grenville's Act perpetual.
At the general election that year, Morice, facing heightened opposition, stood himself in both his boroughs, displacing Bennet.