Etheldred Benett

Etheldred Benett (1776-January 11,1845) was an early English female geologists, the second daughter of Thomas Benett and great-granddaughter of a former Archbishop of Canterbury.

Later she resided at Norton House, near Warminster, in Wiltshire, and for more than a quarter of a century devoted herself to collecting and studying the fossils of her native county. Her speciality was in the Middle Cretaceous Upper Greenland in the Vale of Wardour and was well known for her collection of Tisbury Coral. She wrote and privately published a monograph, A Catalogue of the Organic Remains of the County of Wiltshire..