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Thomas Gent
(1780-1832)

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LOC:    Gent, Thomas, b. 1780
LBT ID: ThGent1828    VIAF ID: 93595496    LOC ID: n78071689
B/BAP:   1780
DIED:   1832-11-06
SOURCES: Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland (1816); Literary Gazette (10 November 1832) 717; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English poet and man about town born in London; he worked as Royal Navy victualler at Yarmouth before returning to London where contributed to the Literary Gazette and the annuals. Charles Knight described him as “as fat, not quite as witty, but with as sufficient an amount of ‘impudent sauciness,’ as Falstaff.”
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