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Samuel Kent (MP)

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Name
  
Samuel Kent

Died
  
1759

Role
  
MP

Samuel Kent (c. 1683 – 8 October 1759) was M.P. for Ipswich, in the 8th, 9th, and 10th Parliament of Great Britain, sitting from 23 January 1735 to his death in 1759.

He was a younger son of Thomas Kent of Christchurch, Southwark, a Norway merchant.

He was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey for 1729-30. He served as "Distiller to the Court" in 1739.

He married Sarah, the daughter of Richard Dean, skinner, of London, and had 2 sons and a daughter.

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