William Kent (died 1632), of
Dinton,
Wiltshire
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; later of
Durrington and Boscombe House,
East Boscombe,
Wiltshire
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, was an English estate manager and politician.
The son of a Wiltshire gentleman farmer, the proceeds from his employment as an estate manager for the 3rd and 4th
earls of Pembroke
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enabled him to buy East Boscombe manor (with 430 acres at the time of his death) along with other land nearby.
He was a
Member
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(MP) for
Devizes
Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman architecture, Norman castle, and received a charter in 1141. The castle was besieged during the Anarchy, a 12th-century ...
in the short-lived
Parliament of 1614.
Kent was married in or before 1604. His wife, whose name is not recorded, predeceased him;
they had one son, also William (d. 1666).
References
Year of birth missing
17th-century deaths
Politicians from Wiltshire
English MPs 1614
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