Alexander Bennet, Writer to the Signet, lived at Malta House between 1851 and 1853. He was born on 25 September 1811, in Edinburgh, son of William Bennet and Margaret McCraw; and died in 1855.
On 9 March 1846, in Edinburgh, Alexander Bennet married Isabella Nelson. She was born at Dunbar on 24 June 1827, daughter of Thomas Nelson and Margaret Haigh. Four children were all born in Edinburgh: Margaret Bennet (born 6 September 1846), William Bennet (10 August 1847), Ann Young Bennet (15 February 1849)and Isabella Bennet (18 May 1850).