William Bennett (of Manchester)
From Graces Guide
Marriage: On 13th August, at St. Pancras Church, London, Mr. William Bennett, of this town, civil engineer, to Miss Anne Gibson Nasmyth, daughter of Alexander Nasmyth, Esq., of Edinburgh[1]
Anne Nasmyth was a fine artist, and with five of her sisters, taught at the Nasmyth family painting school in Edinburgh. Anne met William Bennett when visiting her brothers James Nasmyth and George Nasmyth in Manchester. They married in 1838 and set up home in Salford. William lent James Nasmyth money to patent his steam hammer.[2]
William Bennett was probably the Bennett of Wren and Bennett, given that James Nasmyth rented a 'flat' (room in a mill) from Wren and Bennett, and one of his first contracts involved machining components for them.
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