William Henry "Dick" Bennett (21 July 1879 – 29 May 1939) was an Australian newspaper editor and proprietor in Peterborough, South Australia.
He was educated at the Sisters of St. Joseph School (later named St. Anacletus' Hall), and followed his brother James J. Bennett (c. 1873 – 7 March 1900) in the printing trade with R. M. Osborne at the Petersburg Times in 1894.
But he persevered and built the business, with the Booleroo Magnet and the purchase of the Orroroo Enterprise from Colonel Tom Hancock and the Weekly Times of Adelaide.
He died, some said of overwork, after some months of increasingly poor health and a stroke, in a private hospital in Glenelg.
[1] He married Evangeline Beatrix "Eva" Staer, whose father ran the Petersburg Hotel, on 8 January 1902; they lived at Quorn for seven years before moving to Peterborough.