COSMO BENNETT

This site is devoted to the Bennett family that has been traced back to a small Catholic community living in Banffshire, in the north-east of Scotland, in the late 18th century. Its best known members are James Gordon Bennett, the founder-owner-editor of the New York Herald, and his son James Gordon Bennett Junior, in his time also owner-editor of the New York Herald and, later, founder, in Paris, of its European edition, renamed, some years after his death, the International Herald Tribune... This site is about the Gordon Bennett family from Scotland. Their cosmopolitan lives involved journalism and yacht racing across the Atlantic and the Mediterranean: Cosmo in Scotland and Spain; James Gordon Bennett and James junior in New York and France; Jeannette in Europe and Newport. This is the home page.