 His son, Liam Westropp Bennett, stood as a Fine Gael candidate in 1954.His obituary in "The Irish Times" said that he was from a "prominent and popular family" in the south of Ireland who had rendered much service during the "turbulent early years" of the Irish State.In an interview in 2008 Liam Cosgrave, the former Taoiseach of Ireland, who knew Westropp Bennett and his brother George, well said that Westropp Bennett "a man of principle...who was held in universally high regard".