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| | Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | He was the son of Sir John Bennet of Dawley, Middlesex, and of Dorothy Crofts, was the younger brother of John Bennet, 1st Baron Ossulston, was baptized at Little Saxham, Suffolk, in 1618, and was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. |
 | | In 1663 he obtained a peerage as Baron Arlington, or Harlington, in Middlesex, and in 1667 was appointed one of the postmasters-general. |
 | | The control of foreign affairs was entrusted to him, and he was chiefly responsible for the attack on the Smyrna fleet and for the Second Anglo-Dutch War, during which he ironically married the Dutch Lady van Beverswijck in 1666. |
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