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Darwin Correspondence Project

William Cox Bennett

1820–95

Journalist and author. Brother of John Bennett. Worked in the family watchmaking business. Staff writer for the Weekly Dispatch, 1869–70; editor of the Lark, 1883–4. Member of the London council of the Education League. His works included Prometheus the fire-giver (1877), and Songs for sailors (1878).

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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