Robert Bennett (Melbourne mayor)

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Robert Bennett (21 January 1822 – 18 January 1891)<ref name=parl>Template:Cite re-member</ref> was a politician and Mayor of Melbourne, Australia between 1861 and 1862.

Bennett was born in Tanderagee, County Armagh, Ireland, and arrived in the Port Phillip District in January 1842.<ref name=parl/> In November 1856 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for East Bourke, holding the seat until June 1857. He held the same seat again from October 1859 to August 1864.<ref name=parl/>

Bennett died in Northcote, Victoria on 18 January 1891.<ref name=parl/>

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