R. A. R. (Reginald Arthur Renaud) Bennett

Reginald Arthur Renaud Bennett, usually published as R. A. R. Bennett, was a British writer active around the turn of the 20th century. Surviving catalog and library records connect his name with practical, explanatory books rather than fiction, including works on electricity and marine aquaria.

Among the books associated with him are How to Make Electrical Machines and Marine Aquaria: Their Construction, Arrangement, and Management. Those titles suggest the kind of author he was: clear, instructional, and interested in helping ordinary readers build, observe, and understand things for themselves.

Some records also give his full name as Reginald Arthur Renaud Bennett and place his life in the late Victorian and early modern period. I wasn’t able to confirm a suitable portrait image from the sources I checked, so no profile image is included here.