Sir Levinus Bennet, 2nd Baronet (1631 – 5 December 1693) [1] was a British Tory politician.
He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Bennet, 1st Baronet of Babraham, Cambridgeshire and his wife Mary Munck, daughter of Levinus Munck. [2] In 1667, he succeeded his father as baronet. [3]
Bennet was educated at Gray's Inn in 1644. [2] He was appointed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in 1652 [2] and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridgeshire from 1679 until his death in 1693. [4]
On 6 July 1653, at All Hallows-on-the-Wall, London, he married Judith Boevey, the daughter of William Boevey (died 1661) of Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire, son of the Dutch-born Huguenot Andrew Boevey (died 1625), and brother of the merchant, lawyer and philosopher James Boevey (1622–1696). They had two sons and seven daughters. [2] Bennet died in London and was buried in Babraham a week later. [5] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only surviving son, Richard. [3]
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