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John Bennett (watchmaker)
This article is about Sir John Bennett, watchmaker and local politician. For other people, see John Bennett.
Sir John Bennett (15 October 1814 – 3 July 1897) FRAS was a clockmaker and watchmaker.
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He was described by one biographer as a "flamboyant personality who seems to have aroused in his contemporaries varying degrees of ridicule, hostility, and admiration".[1]
Life
The eldest son of John Bennett, watchmaker, of Greenwich, he was educated at Colfe's Grammar School, Lewisham.
In 1846, he established his own business as a watchmaker at 65 Cheapside, in the City of London.[1] His younger brother, the poet William Cox Bennett, was also a watchmaker in Cheapside.
Although trained as a practical watchmaker, Bennett's business at Cheapside was a high street retailer of watches made by English and Swiss watch manufacturers.[3]
Bennett married Agnes Willson in 1843 and the couple had three children, Alice, John,
