Thomas Bennett (lord mayor)

Sir Thomas Bennett or Bennet (1543–1627) was an English merchant and Lord Mayor of London in 1603–04.

A leading member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers, Bennett was elected an Alderman of the City of London for Vintry Ward on 7 February 1594.

Bennett was knighted by King James I on 26 July 1603 and in 1604 he was elected Alderman of Lime Street Ward, serving until 1612.

[4] His younger son, Richard Bennett and his wife Elizabeth daughter of William Cradock,[5] are ancestors of the Marquesses of Salisbury; Richard Bennett's widow married secondly Sir Heneage Finch, Speaker of the House of Commons.

[citation needed] His daughter Mary married Richard Lewknor and had Sir John Lewknor (1623–1669) who married Anne (d. 1704), daughter George Mynne of Abisham in Surrey and the second cousin of Nicholas Mynne.