UK Elections Info

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Baptised: 6 September 1618

Died: 28 July 1685

1st Baron Arlington - 14 March 1665

1st Viscount Thetford - 22 April 1672

1st Earl of Arlington - 22 April 1672

Knighted - 1656

Member of Privy Council - 15 October 1662

son of Sir John Bennet

son of Dorothy Crofts

husband of Isabella von Nassau

Westminster School

Christ Church, Oxford (1635 -)

Secretary of State for the Southern Department	1662	1674
Postmaster-General	1667	1677
Commissioner for Trade	1668	1672
Lord of the Admiralty	1673	1679
Lord Chamberlain of the Household	1674	28 July 1685	(Died)

June 1661		Callington
14 March 1665 Elevation of Sir Henry Bennet to the Peerage - Baron Arlington