KENT, George. b. Tunbridge Wells 1806; an apprentice to the wire work trade in Chelsea; a window blind maker, Constitution row, Gray’s Inn road, London; took out a patent dated 12 June 1844 for a knife cleaning machine; knife cleaning machine maker at 329 Strand, 218 Regent st. and 101 Holborn to 1854; manufacturer of labor saving articles of domestic utility at 199 High Holborn 1854 to death; his name has become a household word all over the civilized world. d. Southwood, 72 Southwood lane, Highgate 23 May 1890.
Note.—His eldest son George E. Kent d. 12 Manor villas, Theydon Bois, Essex 30 Jany. 1892 aged 54.
KENT, George H. b. London 1809; reporter on rowing, sailing matches, pedestrianism, cricket and shooting matches to all the London daily and weekly papers except The Times and Bell’s Life from 1826; police reporter at Queen square for the Morning Post 1838. d. Brighton 6 June 1883. The Town 10 March 1838 p. 323.
KENT, James Henry. b. 1810; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1838; surgeon at Stanton near Bury St. Edmunds; famous for his scientific preparation of medicinal extracts and dried pharmaceutical herbs, for which he gained medals at great exhibitions of London 1851, Paris 1855 and New York 1853; author of Remarks on the injuriousness of the consolidation of small farms and the benefit of small occupations 1844. d. Stanton 22 Oct. 1855.
Note.—His elder brother Walton Kent, educ. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals; fellow of Obstetrical Soc.; L.S.A. 1827; surgeon at Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk about 1832–62; carried on the above business after his brother’s death; author of Essay on lingering or protracted labour 1828. d. Walsham 24 June 1862.
KENTISH, John (only son of John Kentish, draper, d. 1814). b. St. Albans 26 June 1768; ed. at Daventry academy 1784–8, at Hackney college 1788–90; unitarian minister at Plymouth Dock 1790, chapel in George st. opened 27 April 1791; minister of Treville st. chapel, Plymouth 1794–5; afternoon preacher at the Gravel Pit, Hackney 1795; morning preacher at St. Thomas’s chapel, Southward 1802; pastor of New Meeting, Birmingham 23 Jany. 1803 to 1844; author of A Letter to James White on the unitarian christians in West of England 1794; A vindication of the principles upon which unitarian christians recommend their views by the distribution of books 2 ed. 1800; Notes and comments on passages of scripture 1844, 3 ed. 1848. d. Park Vale, Edgbaston, Birmingham 6 March 1853. J. Kenrick’s Memoir of J. Kentish (1854), portrait.
KENYON, George Kenyon, 2 Baron (2 son of 1 Baron Kenyon 1732–1802). b. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 22 July 1776; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801, D.C.L. 1814; succeeded his father as 2 baron 4 April 1802; barrister M.T. 3 May 1793, bencher 1811 to death, reader 1815, treasurer 1823; custos brevium of court of queen’s bench 1802–37 when office was abolished by 1 Vict. cap. xxx 12 July 1837; a comr. for building churches; F.S.A.; a trustee of the Theological seminary in Ohio 1825; the 77th anniversary of his birthday celebrated by a public festivity at Hanmer, Flint 22 July 1853; author of Observations on the Roman Catholic question 1810, 4 ed. 1812. d. Gredington hall, Flintshire 25 Feb. 1855. bur. at Hanmer. I.L.N. xxiii 112, 113 (1853).
KENYON, Lloyd Kenyon, 3 Baron. b. Gredington hall, Flintshire 1 April 1805; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; succeeded 25 Feb. 1855; M.P. for St. Michael’s, Cornwall 1830–2. d. Eastbourne, Sussex 14 July 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. ii 87 (1869).
KENYON, John (son of Mr. Kenyon of parish of Trelawney, Jamaica, sugar planter). b. parish of Trelawney, Jamaica 1784; ed. at Sawyer’s school, Bristol, the Charterhouse, London, and Peter house, Camb. 1808; studied chemistry under W. Nicholson in Soho square; friend of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, C. Lamb and other literary celebrities; a well known gastronome; published Rhymed plea for tolerance 1833, 2 ed. 1839; Poems for the most part occasional 1838; A day at Tivoli with other verses 1849. d. Cowes, Isle of Wight 3 Dec. 1856. bur. in Lewisham churchyard. G.M. ii 309–15 (1857).
Note.—Browning sent him the poem Andrea del Sarto from Florence, and in 1856 while staying in his house in England Mrs. Browning finished Aurora Leigh and dedicated it to Kenyon. He left by his will 80 legacies to 80 of his literary friends, the poets included were Robert Browning £6,500, Mrs. Browning £4000, B. W. Procter known as Barry Cornwall £6500.