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He was the eldest son of Robert Dent, a banker in London and Clapham. He was a partner in Child's Bank and a Tory Member of Parliament for Lancaster from 1790 to 1812. [ 1 ] He was a defeated candidate at Poole in 1812 but was returned to Parliament there in 1818 and again, unopposed, in 1822.
The Dent family was a prominent business and political family in Maryland. Pages in category "Dent family" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
J. M. Dent died in 1926. [6] It now forms an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group.The registered companies of J. M. Dent & Sons and Everyman's Library were retained by the Dent family and are now, respectively, an investment company, Malaby Holdings Ltd, and Malaby Martin Ltd, a niche development company.
Frederick Dent Grant at a Military Tournament, Toledo, Ohio, 1909. Frederick Dent Grant (May 30, 1850 – April 12, 1912) [1] was a soldier and United States minister to Austria-Hungary. Grant was the first son of General and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Grant. He was named after his uncle, Frederick Tracy Dent.
Dent family coat of arms. Col. Thomas Dent Sr., Gent. (1630–1676), Justice, Sheriff, and member of the Lower House of the Maryland General Assembly.. Thomas was born about 1630 in the Parish of Guisborough, Yorkshire, England, making him slightly less than thirty years of age upon his arrival in America around 1658.
Lancelot Dent was a 19th-century British merchant resident for a period in Canton, China who dealt primarily in opium. He was christened on August 4, 1799, in Crosby Ravensworth , Westmorland , England, son of William and Jane (Wilkinson) Dent.
After the war, Dent served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1782 to 1790, where he was speaker pro tempore in 1788 and speaker in 1789 and 1790. During his tenure as a delegate, he was an unsuccessful candidate for Maryland's 1st congressional district in 1789. [4]
Emma Dent (née Brocklehurst; 23 April 1823 – 22 February 1900) was an English antiquarian and collector who restored and developed Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire. Dent corresponded with some of the most famous names and eminent thinkers of the 19th century. [1] She planned the layout of the gardens at Sudeley and oversaw their creation.