| 词条 | George Bennet (missionary) |
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George Bennet (16 April 1774 – 13 November 1841) was an English missionary from Sheffield, Yorkshire. LifeBennet was a Congregationalist organiser in Sheffield.[1] In 1821 he set out with Daniel Tyerman, supported financially by the London Missionary Society. He travelled to China, Southeast Asia, and India for the LMS with Tyerman.[2][3] Bennet stopped in Macau during his Pacific voyage. He was impressed by the garden and aviary of opium trader Thomas Beale, devoting 45 pages of his travelogue to them.[4] Bennet and Tyerman made an extended stay in Tahiti, and Bennet's letters from there were published in the Sheffield Iris by James Montgomery.[5] Tyerman died in Madagascar, where they had set up missions with the support of King Radama I.[6] After his voyage Bennet gave historical artifacts that he had collected to the Natural History Museum. He died in London on 13 November 1841.[7] He is buried with a monument in his memory in Sheffield General Cemetery with an inscription. References1. ^{{cite book |author1=Alan Kidd |author2=David Nicholls |title=Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle-Class Identity in Britain, 1800-1940 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3rJgwiVSTvgC&pg=PA52 |date=8 October 1999 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-0-7190-5676-5 |page=52}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bennet, George}}{{UK-reli-bio-stub}}2. ^{{cite book |last=Montgomery |first=James |authorlink=James Montgomery (poet)|author2=Daniel Tyerman |author3=George Bennet |title=Journal of voyages and travels by the Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet, esq: deputed from the London missionary society, to visit their various stations in the South Sea Islands, China, India, etc. between the years 1821 and 1829, Volume 3 |publisher=London Missionary Society |year=1832 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KrIPAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22George+Bennett%22+mission&client=firefox-a&source=gbs_navlinks_s}} 3. ^{{cite book |title=Religion versus empire?: British Protestant missionaries and overseas expansion, 1700-1914 |last=Porter |first=Andrew N. |page=165 |year=2004 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-0-7190-2823-6 }} 4. ^{{Cite book |last=Fan |first=Fa-ti |title=British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter |publisher=Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press |year=2004}} pp. 44-45 5. ^{{cite book |author1=Alan Kidd |author2=David Nicholls |title=Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle-Class Identity in Britain, 1800–1940 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3rJgwiVSTvgC&pg=PA54 |date=8 October 1999 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-0-7190-5676-5 |page=54}} 6. ^{{cite DNB |wstitle=Tyerman, Daniel |volume=57}} 7. ^{{cite book |title=Register of Missionaries, Deputations, etc., from 1796 to 1896 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vUZOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA353 |year=1896 |page=353}} 10 : English Congregationalist missionaries|1774 births|1841 deaths|Congregationalist missionaries in China|Congregationalist missionaries in India|Congregationalist missionaries in French Polynesia|Congregationalist missionaries in Madagascar|British expatriates in French Polynesia|British expatriates in Madagascar|British expatriates in China |
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