I am also reminded that there are many Bennetts now who admit they are Jewish.
See Naftali Bennett, who has led the far-right Jewish Hom Party in Israel since 2012.
Also, Michael Bennet, Senator from Colorado, whose mother is Jewish.
We are told his father isn't, but that may be more misdirection.
His mother is a Benedict, which is curious seeing that Bennett and Benedict come from the same family and are just variant spellings. *
His paternal grandmother is scrubbed.
And then there is Tony Bennett, who is sold as Italian, of course, but who has a Jewish daughter.
If we keep going back from Thomas Bennett, we come to Sir Thomas Bennet, Lord Mayor of London in 1603 and father of Sir Simon Bennet, 1st Baronet of Bechampton.
[We find many Elizabeth Bennets in this family, which was of course the name of the lead character in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.]
But were these Bennets related to the Bennets above?
Yes.
Henry Bennet, Lord Arlington, was son of Sir John Bennet, MP, who was the grandson of Richard Bennet of Clapcote.
And he was the brother of our Lord Mayor of London, Sir Thomas Bennet.
Lord Bennet's brother was Baron Ossulton, remember?
His son was the Earl of Tankerville, who married Mary Grey.
That is an important name in the peerage, as you may know, since it goes back to the Marquesses of Dorset, who produced Lady Jane Grey.
Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset and Duke of Suffolk, was the grandson of Elizabeth Woodville, King Edward IV's queen.
His daughter Lady Jane Grey was Queen for nine days in 1553 before being executed.
She was the granddaughter of King Henry VII, but that didn't help her when the Privy Council turned against her husband and his father, the Duke of Northumberland.