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Thomas Boutflower Bennett

Thomas Boutflower Bennett was an early colonist of South Australia, remembered as a schoolmaster at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution and at Saint Peter's College.

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• Ann Eliza Bennett (c. 1835 – 5 November 1889) • Charles Bennett married Sarah (died 19 May 1880) • John William Ogilvie Bennett (11 November 1845 – 28 May 1869) was a member of B. T. Finniss's 1864 expedition, and one of his few supporters. During this expedition he shot dead an Aboriginal man, for which he was recalled to Adelaide to stand trial, later exonerated. He returned to the Territory on George Goyder's 1869 survey expedition to Port Darwin. On 24 May he and a companion William Guy were attacked by aborigines, both being wounded by spears. Bennett died 28 May 1869 after Dr. Peel removed, under chloroform, a section of spear which had penetrated a lung. The wound was sutured but the case considered hopeless by Peel, and given a morphine draught. Bennett and Guy were on a working party with surveyor Richard Randall Knuckey at Fred's Pass on the Adelaide River on 24 May 1869. They had been left alone in the camp to do their drafting work when the attack occurred. Bennett had been on good terms with them previously and was working on an atlas of Wuna (Wulna) placenames. He was interred near the top of Fort Hill overlooking the harbour - the first white man to be buried in Darwin. Guy completely recovered from his wounds. • Nathaniel William Ogle Bennett (c. 1850 – 26 August 1882), an officer with H. M. Customs Service. • William Ogle Bennett (21 January 1855 – 7 March 1906), a Government agent in Port Lincoln then Moonta. :N. W. O. Bennett and W. O. Bennett married sisters Rebecca Caroline Raphael and Laura Raphael on 9 June and 4 October 1877 respectively. ==References==
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