| Authorised form of name | Bennet; Abraham (1749 - 1799) |
| Dates | 1749 - 1799 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Baptism:
Taxal, Cheshire (20 December 1749)
Burial:
09 May 1799 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/03/1789 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB (MP)
References:
Douglas McKie, 'Priestley's Laboratory and Library and Other of his Effects' in NR 1956-57 vol 12 pp 114-136
Paul Elliott, 'Abraham Bennet, FRS (1749-1799): A Provincial Electrician in Eighteenth-Century England' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 59-78, plate |
| Code | NA6697 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1788/14 | Bennet, Abraham: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| L&P/9/13/1 | Letter, 'Description of a new electrometer' from Abraham Bennet to Joseph Priestley | 14 September 1786 |
| L&P/9/13/4 | Plate, 'Two sections of the instrument' by Abraham Bennet | 1786 |
| L&P/9/13/3 | Plate, 'Stages of experiment' by Abraham Bennet | 1786 |
| L&P/9/46/1 | Paper, 'An account of a doubler of electricity' by Abraham Bennet | 1787 |
| L&P/9/46/2 | Plate, 'Collection of atmospherical electricity' by Abraham Bennet | 1787 |
| L&P/9/13/2 | Plate, 'A section of the new electrometer' by Abraham Bennet | 1786 |
| L&P/9/46/4 | Table, 'Diary of atmospherical electricity' by Abraham Bennet | 1787 |
| L&P/9/220/3 | Plate, 'A new magnetic needle' by Abraham Bennet | 1791 |
| L&P/9/220/2 | Plate, 'A new magentic needle' by Abraham Bennet | 1791 |
| L&P/9/46 | Paper, 'An account of a doubler of electricity' by Abraham Bennet | 1787 |
| L&P/9/220 | Paper, 'A new suspension of the magnetic needle, intended for the discovery of minute quantities of magnetic attraction; also an air vane of great sensibility, with new experiments on the magentism of iron filings and brass' by Abraham Bennet | 1791 |
| L&P/9/46/3 | Plate, 'The process of doubling' by Abraham Bennet | 1787 |
| L&P/9/13 | Paper, 'Description of a new electrometer' by Abraham Bennet | 14 September 1786 |
| L&P/9/19 | Letter, 'Appendix to the description of a new electrometer ' from Abraham Bennet to Charles Blagden | 18 December 1786 |