Reverend Arthur Bennett is the chaplain of the Maverick regiment who finds and captures Kim in their camp. Upon learning Kim’s true identity, he and Father Victor take him hostage, intending to send him away to a military orphanage. Unlike Father Victor, however, Bennett shows no sympathy toward Kim and the lama, treating the former as a misbehaved child and the latter as a “heathen.” Mockingly nicknamed the “Church of England,” Bennett represents the narrow-minded bigotry of colonialism, particularly in connection to the Church.