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Brent, William Brent, 1786-1857
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1786-1857
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BRENT, WILLIAM BRENT, son of William Hodgkinson, Eltham, Kent, and Sarah --- [perhaps Holmes] (IGI); bapt. Bexley, Kent 23 Aug 1786 (IGI); in school lists 1801, 1803 (G); known as Brent at school; head Town Boy in Oct 1803; author of prologue and epilogue to Tom Thumb, acted by the Grantites in Nov 1803; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Oct 1804, aged 18; BA 1809; assumed surname of Brent in lieu of Hodgkinson 1807, as nephew and heir of Timothy Brent, Secretary to Board of Green Cloth, Surveyor-Gen. Duchy of Cornwall and army agent; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Jun 1808, called to bar 18 Nov 1813; special pleader; Home circuit; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1824-31, when post abolished); Clerk of Verge, Royal Household 28 May 1814 (still 1837); Steward and Judge, Palace Court of Westminster, 7 Aug 1830-49; d. 1857 (will proved 7 Mar 1857, as of Gower Street).
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.