His elder brother Thomas Westropp Bennett was a Senator and Cathaoirleach of the Irish Free State Senate as well as serving in the Board of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society (IAOS) for many years with Sir Horace Plunkett.
His older brother Thomas Westropp Bennett was a Senator and Cathaoirleach of the Irish Free State Senate, as well as serving on the Board of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society (IAOS), which included Sir Horace Plunkett.