Bennett Scott was a writer

Songwriter

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 of music hall

Music hall

Music Hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960. The term can refer to:# A particular form of variety entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and speciality acts...

 songs. He co-wrote many songs with A.J. Mills and Fred Godfrey

Fred Godfrey

Fred Godfrey was the pen name of Llewellyn Williams, a World War II songwriter...

 including Tom Costello

Tom Costello

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’s "I’ve Made Up My Mind To Sail Away", Whit Cunliffe

Whit Cunliffe

Whit Cunliffe was an English comic singer known for the outfits worn during his stage performances and his World War I song "Hoch, Hoch Der Kaiser" and other songs including "What Does it Matter to Me?" and "A Different Girl Again"...

’s "Fall In And Follow Me", "One Of The B’hoys" by Mark Sheridan

Mark Sheridan

Mark Sheridan born Frederick Shaw was an English music hall comedian and singer. He became a popular singer of lusty seaside songs and was the original performer of the 1909 J.Glover-Kind classic, "I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside"...

, "When I Take My Morning Promenade" by Marie Lloyd

Marie Lloyd

Matilda Alice Victoria Wood was an English music hall singer, best known as Marie Lloyd. Her ability to add lewdness to the most innocent of lyrics led to frequent clashes with the guardians of morality...

, "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty

Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty

"Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" is a music hall song written by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott in 1916. It was popular during the First World War and tells a story of three fictional soldiers on the Western Front suffering from homesickness and their longing to return to...

 by Florrie Forde

Florrie Forde

Florrie Forde , born Flora May Augusta Flannagan, was an Australian popular singer and entertainer. She was one of the greatest stars of the early 20th century music hall....

 and "Take me in a Taxi, Joe".

Prior to gaining fame as a songwriter, Bennett worked the Music Halls with a magic act.

In 1906, he and Mills founded the music publishing firm of Star Music. He was born in London

London

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in 1875.