NameFrederick BennettBorn17th November 1871Died16th September 1950HistoryFrederick Augustus Bennett was born on 15 November 1871 at Ōhinemutu, Lake Rotorua.
His mother was Raiha Ratete (Eliza Rogers), and his father was Thomas Jackson Bennett, a storekeeper, who had emigrated to New Zealand from Ireland in 1849.
On 2 December 1928 he was consecrated bishop of Aotearoa, the first Māori bishop in New Zealand's history.
Frederick Bennett died at his home at Kohupātiki, Hawke's Bay, on 16 September 1950. In his life, he married twice, and had 19 children, 18 of which survived to adulthood. He was buried at St Faith's Church, Ōhinemutu, not far from where he was born.
