Marjorie Olive Bennett was a general practitioner and gynaecologist. She was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, on 23 July 1915. Her father, Reginald Stanley Dunster, was a headmaster, and her mother, Olivia Sextone, a headmistress. From Newport High School she won a state scholarship to Bristol University and qualified in 1939. After junior appointments at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Southmead, she worked for a short time in general practice, before deciding to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology. She married Douglas Bennett FRCS in 1950 and accompanied him to the Mayo Clinic. On her return she was appointed as a consultant at Southmead, where she coped with a tremendous workload in one of the largest units in the region. They retired to Porlock, where she and her husband enjoyed walking on Exmoor. Her husband died in 1992. She died on 5 January 2000. They leave a daughter, Sally.