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Authorised form of nameDent; John (1760 - 1826)
Dates1760 - 1826
NationalityBritish
Date of birth1760
Date of death1826
OccupationBiochemist
ActivityCareer:
Banker, Temple Bar, partner in the London Bank of Child and Company, (1793); MP for Lancaster (1790-1812); MP for Poole (1818-1826)
Freemason, initiated 1788, Lodge of Friendship No 3, subsequently No 6.
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/05/1811
RelationshipsMarried Anne Jane Wilkinson
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
References:
The Library and Museum of Freemasonry 'Freemasons and the Royal Society; Alphabetical List of Fellows of the Royal Society who were Freemasons' 2010, page 26
CodeNA3276
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1811/06Dent, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/54/452Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Edward Dent Esquire; 2 Carlos Place, W. 18 May 1917
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