Ferdinando Bennet

Ferdinando Wallis Bennet was an English soldier who played in four first-class cricket matches between 1874 and 1878.
Bennet was born at Tresillian House near St Newlyn East in Cornwall in 1850. He went to Sherborne School before attending the Royal [Military Academy, Sandhurst]. He was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, brevetted to Colonel, at the end of his military career. As a Lieutenant he was British Vice-Consul of Anatolia based in Adana between 1880 and 1882.
Bennet played in four first-class cricket matches between 1874 and 1878. He played three matches in 1874, once for each of Kent [County Cricket Club|Kent], Gentlemen of the South, and a combined Kent and Gloucestershire [County Cricket Club|Gloucestershire] team. In 1878, he made one appearance for Marylebone Cricket Club.
Bennet married Evelyn Palmer and was a JP in Devon in later life. He died in Northam, Devon in 1929 aged 78.