John Bennet, 1st Baron Ossulston
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John Bennet, 1st Baron Ossulston, 1618-1688, was an English statesman. His father was also Sir John Bennet and his mother was Dorothy Crofts. His younger brother was Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington. He sat as MP for Wallingford, Oxfordshire. He was made a knight at the coronation of Charles II. He became Lord Ossulston, Baron Ossulston in 1682 to recognise his support for the royalist cause during the Civil War. He lived in Dawley, Middlesex and Ossulstone is the name of one of the hundreds there. His son, Charles Bennet, 2nd Baron Ossulston, was given the title Earl of Tankerville.
