George Macdonald Bennett, 1892-1959

Abstract George Macdonald Bennett was born in the City of Lincoln on 25 October 1892, and was the third of a family of two sons and one daughter. His father, the Rev. John Ebenezer Bennett, B.A. (Dublin), after teaching as an assistant master at a private school at Tring, Hertfordshire, started a school of his own at Peckham Rye and subsequently became a Baptist Minister, first at the Thomas Cooper Memorial Chapel, Lincoln, and later at the Mare Street Baptist Chapel, Hackney. His mother, Hannah Martha Grange, who died in 1932, was the second daughter of William Grange, a farmer of Wigginton, Tring, Hertfordshire. Bennett was named after a friend of his father, George Macdonald, the Scottish poet and novelist. In 1918 he married Doris Laycock, who was the only daughter and eldest child of James Laycock, M.P.S., of Fulham, and who had just taken Part II of the Classical Tripos at Cambridge.