Samuel Kent (MP)

For the United States judge, see Samuel B. Kent.

Samuel Kent (c. 1683 – 8 October 1759) was an MP for Ipswich in the 8th, 9th, and 10th Parliament of Great Britain,[1] sitting from 23 January 1735[2] to his death in 1759.[3]

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

He was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey for 1729–30.[4] In 1731 he acquired the Fornham Hall estate at Fornham St. Genevieve, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. He served as "Distiller to the Court" in 1739.[5] As an MP he reliably voted with the Whig court of George II.

He died in 1759. He had married Sarah, the daughter of Richard Dean, skinner, of London, and had 2 sons and a daughter, Sarah, who married Charles Egleton (later Sir Charles Kent, 1st Baronet).[4] His estate passed in turn to a son and then his daughter Sarah and her husband.

  1. ^ Beatson at p. 182
  2. ^ Beatson at p. vii
  3. ^ House of Commons constituencies beginning with "I": Ipswitch (Suffolk)[usurped], Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page[usurped], accessed 7 January 2009
  4. ^ a b "KENT, Samuel (c.1683-1759), of Vauxhall, Surr. and Fornham St. Genevieve, Suff". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  5. ^ Beatson at p. 182, n.9