Q:Facts: - resting place: bavant parish church - death date: 11 january 1845 - birth date: 22 july 1776 - name: etheldred bennett - parents: thomas 1797 -rrb- catherine nee darrell d. 1790 bennett -lrb- c. & nbsp ; 1729 -- - death place: norton house , norton bavant - birth place: tisbury , wiltshire - occupation: fossil collector geologist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of etheldred benett .
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etheldred benett -lrb- 22 july 1776 -- 11 january 1845 -rrb- was an early english geologist .inspired from an early age by the knowledge of her relatives , she devoted much of her life to collecting and studying fossils of south west england and is often considered the ' first lady geologist . 'she worked closely with many principal geologists of the time and her fossil collection played a part in the development of geology as a field of science .discoverer of '' iguanadon '' gideon mantell was so inspired by her work , he named a cretaceous sponge after her .'' ammonites benettianus '' is also named after her .