John Hughes Bennett [SEP] educated at
highly influential in changing medical therapeutics towards a more science-based approach in the second half of the 19th century. He supported the admission of women to medical schools and advocated a better interaction between medical specialities.
Memorials.
In 1901, the University of Edinburgh inaugurated the "John Hughes Bennett Laboratory of Experimental Pathology", in homage to "one of that galaxy of talent and genius that illuminated Edinburgh in the middle decades of the last century". A second laboratory with his name was opened in 1998, in
Albert John Bennett and Elsie Winifred née Bourne.
In 1952 he married Rosalind Mary Elkington (who was also working at Ferranti). They had four children: Chistopher John, Ann Margaret, Susan Elizabeth and Jane Mary.
In 1986 Bennett, aged 65, retired with his wife to Sydney's Northern Beaches.
Bennett died at home on 9 December 2010 and was survived by his wife, four children and six grandchildren.
Education and War Service.
John Bennett was educated at The Southport School. After