Sir Walter George Kent
CBE (3 August 1858 – 11 November 1938) was a British businessman who was chairman and managing director of the engineering firm
George Kent Ltd which was started by his father, George Kent, in 1838. He was appointed a
CBE in 1918 and was knighted in 1929 for political services; he was at the time chairman of the Luton Conservative Association.
Kent died following an operation during the Two-Minute Silence on
Armistice Day, while in a Harrow nursing home.
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1858 births
1938 deaths
People from Bloomsbury
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Knights Bachelor
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