Samuel Bennett (28 March 1815 – 2 June 1878) was a journalist, newspaper owner and historian in colonial Australia.
[2] He migrated to Australia in 1841, having been engaged by Messrs. Stevens & Stokes of The Sydney Morning Herald to superintend the typographical department of that paper.
[1] Bennett also started in 1867 The Evening News, and in 1870 The Australian Town and Country Journal, a weekly newspaper, both of which achieved phenomenal success, with circulations of 32,000 and 30,000 respectively in 1881.
Bennett died of tetanus at his residence, Mundarrah Towers, Little Coogee, Sydney, New South Wales, on 2 June 1878.
Bennett was survived by three sons (all three — Alfred b.1851, Frank b.1853 and Christopher b.1857 — joined their father and continued his newspaper business, his will providing for his eldest surviving son to be the managing proprietor, they succeeded each other in birth order) and a daughter, Rose, also a proprietor, who married John Henniker Heaton.