Joseph Bennet

Joseph Bennet (1629–1707) was a nonconformist minister in the southern English country of Sussex. He acquired a reputation as a powerful preacher.

Bennet gained admiration for staying with his parishioners for more than twenty years after being formally sacked from his ministerial post over doctrinal differences, even after his officially appointed successor to the living in Sussex abandoned the community when it was struck by plague in 1665. Provided by Wikipedia