An uncle, Richard Newton Bennett was chief justice of the Island of Tobago.
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Courtenay promised his followers a better future with greater equality and fairer distribution of wealth, addressing their concerns about low wages, lack of work, and the New Poor Law.
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Bennett was of Irish parentage, born in 1809, the son of Major William Bennett formerly of the 69th Regiment of Foot, and the grandson of Richard Bennett who was murdered during the Wexford Rebellion of 1798.
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When sentencing the prisoners the judge, Lord Denman, said that Bennett's relations and friends had asked that their lives should be spared.
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