BRENT

John ( eld. son of John Brent of Rother hi the, Kent, shipbuilder 1786–1867 ). b. Rother hi the 21 Aug. 1808; a miller at Canterbury; alderman; city treasurer; F.S.A. 7 April 1853; author of The sea wolf, a romance 1834; Lays and legends of Kent 1840, 2 ed. 1851; The battle cro , a romance of the fourteenth century 3 vols. 1845; Canterbury in the olden time 1860, 2 ed. 1879; Village bells and other poems 1865, 2 ed. 1868 and of many papers in antiquarian magazines. d. 8 Dane John grove, Canterbury 23 April 1882. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i , 259, 303 (1883); Journal of Brit. Archæol. A oc. xxxviii , 235–6 (1882). BRENT, William Brent . Barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1813; comr. of bankrupts to 1831; steward of Marshal sea Court and Palace Court, Great Scotland yard, Westminster 16 Sep. 1825 to 31 Dec. 1849 when they were abolished by 12 & 13 Vict. c. 101, s. xiii; probably dead.