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  Norton Bavant | British History Online
When Norton passed to the Crown, the lease of the manor farm was held by the Benett family, which had been prosperous in the village since the late 14th century.
58) Allotments were made to Benett in respect of the farm (595 a.), Marven's (200 a.), the tenantry lands (380 a.) and the rectorial glebe (83 a.).
Sixteenthcentury leases of it to the Benett family included all tithes arising from it, but the owners of the rectory alleged that this leasehold interest was not conveyed with the freehold of the farm.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=16076   (10309 words)

  
 Etheldred Benett - LoveToKnow Watches
ETHELDRED BENETT (1776-1845), one of the earliest of English women geologists, the second daughter of Thomas Benett, of Pyt House near Tisbury, was born in 1776.
Later she resided at Norton House, near Warminster, in Wiltshire, and for more than a quarter of a century devoted herself to collecting and studying the fossils of her native county.
This page was last modified 16:00, 16 May 2006.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Etheldred_Benett   (114 words)

  
 timelinescience - discovering dinosaurs (Bennet) - resources
Etheldred Benett was the daughter of a prosperous Wiltshire family.
Etheldred Benett corresponded regularly with a number of the other people who were interested and working with fossils at the time.
In particular, she acted as a sounding board and source of encouragement to Gideon Mantell (husband of Mary Mantell) for many years as he struggled to make his mark on the world of geology.
www.timelinescience.org /resource/students/dinos/benett.htm   (135 words)

  
 Benett - Kristin Benett Teacher Ratings - CEGEP DE MAISONNEUVE - MONTREAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Benett - Kristin Benett Teacher Ratings - CEGEP DE MAISONNEUVE - MONTREAL
Etheldred Benett corresponded regularly with a number of the other people who were
Benett, Welcome to the Jungle (March), review by Jason Thompson.
supersearching.com /?q=benett   (418 words)

  
 Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Proceedings vol. 7
Smith's influence spread far and wide; Henry Steinhauer, a Bath-based Moravian missionary who moved to America in 1815, left his collection to the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences Museum when he died in 1818.
Etheldred Bennett, `the first lady geologist', who lived in Warminster, also gave her collection to the Philadelphia Museum.
Etheldred Benett of Wiltshire, England, the first lady geologist _ her fossil collection in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and the rediscovery of `lost' specimens of Jurassic Triigoniidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) with their soft anatomy preserved.
www.brlsi.org /proceedvol7/meeting200303.htm   (2527 words)

  
 School of Geography and Earth Sciences at McMaster: Faculty Awards
Congratulations to Rick Bourbonniere a grant from Ducks Unlimited for "Conventional farming inputs on nutrient dynamics and greenhouse gas exchenge on riparian wetlands in Southern Ontario"
and to Darren Grocke on a grant from the McMaster Arts Research Board for "The impact and influence of paleontologist Miss Etheldred Benett on the development of geology in the early 19th Century, with particular reference on her communication with Gideon Mantell"
Congratulations to Altaf Arain on a grant from CFCAS for "Development of a Canadian global coupled carbon model"
www.science.mcmaster.ca /~geo/faculty_awards_2005.html   (1017 words)

  
 Hugh Torrens Bibliography
(With A.E. Bogan and E.E. Spamer) Recovery of the Etheldred Benett Collection of Fossils Mostly from Jurassic - Cretaceous Strata of Wiltshire England, Analysis of the Taxonomic Nomenclature of Benett (1831), and Notes and Figures of Type Specimens Contained in the Collection.
With E. Benamy, E,B. Daeschler, E.S. Spamer and A. Bogan, “Etheldred Benett of Wiltshire, England, the first lady geologist - Her fossil collection in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and the rediscovery of “lost” specimens of Jurassic Trigoniidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) with their soft anatomy preserved”,
5) Etheldred Benett (1775-1845) fossil collector and geologist, 5, 71-72,
www.philosophy.leeds.ac.uk /HPSLinks/Torrens.htm   (4604 words)

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