between medical specialities. Memorials In 1901, the University of Edinburgh inaugurated the John Hughes Bennett Laboratory of Experimental Pathology, in homage to "one of that galaxy of talent and genius that illuminated Edinburgh in the middle decades of the last century". A second laboratory with his name was opened in 1998, in a joint venture between Britain's Leukaemia Research Fund, the University of Edinburgh and the Western General Hospital Trust. Family On 22 August 1844 Bennett married Jessie Samuel (1824–1906), a niece of the Reverend Alexander Simpson (later moderator of the Church of Scotland). They had a son Dr Alexander Hughes Bennett (1848-1901) who became a consultant neurologist in London and four daughters. Their daughter Harriet Sophia Bennett (1850-1905), married Robert Cox MP. Freemasonry Rhind was a Scottish Freemason. He was Initiated in Lodge Canongate Kilwinning, No. 2, on 23 November 1836. Notes References Attribution Further reading External links Lodge Canongate Kilwinning, No. 2 (Edinburgh) 1812 births 1875 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh British pathologists Scottish Freemasons 19th-century English medical doctors