Samuel Kent (c. 1683 – 8 October 1759) was an MP for

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line r ...

in the 8th, 9th, and 10th

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, 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

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for 1729–30. In 1731 he acquired the

Fornham Hall Fornham Hall was a large 18th-century country house near Bury St Edmunds. It was demolished in 1957. History The Fornham estate was bought in 1731 by Samuel Kent, a rich London grain merchant who became a local MP. Sir Charles Kent, Bt (Samuel ...

estate at Fornham St. Genevieve, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. He served as "Distiller to the Court" in 1739.Beatson at p. 182, n.9 As an MP he reliably voted with the Whig court of

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. 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 Sir Charles Kent, 1st Baronet (1743? – 14 March 1811) was a British landowner and MP. He was born Charles Egleton, the only son of Sir Charles Egleton, a London merchant (Sheriff of London for 1743) and his wife Sarah, the daughter of Samuel Ke ...

). His estate passed in turn to a son and then his daughter Sarah and her husband.

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Robert Beatson Robert Beatson, LL.D. FRSE FSA (1741–1818) was a Scottish compiler and miscellaneous writer. Life He was born on 25 June 1741 at Dysart in Fife, Scotland, the son of David Beatson of Vicarsgrange. He was educated for the military profession, ...

, ''A Chronological Register of Both Houses of the British Parliament, from the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1807: From the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament Of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland in 1807'', Volume 1, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme by J. Chalmers & Co., 1807;
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1683 births 1759 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Ipswich British MPs 1734–1741 British MPs 1741–1747 British MPs 1747–1754 British MPs 1754–1761 High Sheriffs of Surrey Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub