The son of William Bennett, born at Coventry, where his father had built the Royal Opera House. He studied at Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, and became Resident Surgical Officer at the General and at the Jaffray Hospitals. He gained further experience at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and in Paris before he began to specialize as an orthopaedic surgeon. He was appointed Surgeon to the Orthopaedic and Spinal Hospital, Birmingham; to the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, and to the Moseley Hall Hospital for Children. Moreover he acted as Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University of Birmingham. During the war 1914-1918 Bennett served in the Royal Worcestershire Regiment (TF), becoming brevet Hon Major, and was Visiting Surgeon to the First Birmingham War Hospital. He practised both in Birmingham and Coventry, residing at Coventry, where he died on June 4th, 1927. Publications:– Bennett published a number of papers relating to orthopaedic surgery in the Birmingham medical journals.