Charles Macfarlane:

Reminiscences of a Literary Life

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Thomas Gent (1780-1832)

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.” 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.”