Was educated at Owens College, at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, and at the Victoria Dental Hospital. He was House Surgeon both at the Royal Infirmary and at the Victoria Dental Hospital, and also for a time at the British Seamen's Hospital, Royal Albert Dock. Intense deafness led him to take up

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