The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Bennett, Thomas Jewell
Bennett, Thomas Jewell, C.I.E. 1903; Principal Proprietor of the Times of India, Bombay; s. of late J. T. Bennett, of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire; took to journalism early in life; was for some years assistant Editor, “Western Daily Press”, Bristol; joined the leader-writing staff of the “Standard”; proceeded to Bombay, 1884; for eight years Associate Editor, the Bombay Gazette; succeeded to the editorship and the principal proprietary interest in the “Times of India”: was presented by the agriculturists of Guzerat with an address thanking him for the successful persistency with which he had brought the grievances of the cultivating class to the notice of Government, 1901; awarded a silver medal of the Society of Arts for a paper on the British connection with the Persian Gulf, 1902; nominated by the Bombay Government as a Fellow of the Bombay University. Address: Harmarton House, Speldhurst, Kent. Clubs Oriental; and Byculla.