Wilkinson Dent

1801 - 1886

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Partner in Campbell Dent (q.v., under Colin Campbell & Co.) awarded with his co-partners the compensation for two estates in British Guiana. 

  1. 1881 census shows Wilkinson Dent (no occupation given) aged 80 b. Westmorland living at 8 Fitzroy Square with nephew John Dent (aged 59 annuitant b. East Indies); 1871 at 8 Fitzroy Square shown as a landowner; 1861 8 Fitzroy Square aged 60 retired Chinese merchant., born Flass[?] Westmorland. Death registered Q2 1886 aged 85 Pancras.  

  2. National Probate Calendar: will with a codicil of Wilkinson Dent late of 8 Fitzroy Square and of Flass House in Westmoreland who died 10/05/1886 at 8 Fitzroy Square proved by John Dent et al., personal estate £183,386 9s 10d.  

  3. Wilkinson Dent, 'a lesser man of business than his elder brothers' and 'unsuccessful in Europe', is included in the collective biography of the Dent family in the ODNB.


Sources

T71/887 British Guiana claim nos. 2321 (Pleasing Hope and Windsor) and 2345 (Ridge). 

  1. Censuses 1861-1881; FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online]. 

  2. England & Wales National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1861-1941. 

  3. Philip K. Law, ‘Dent family (per. c.1820–1927)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004); online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/53862, accessed 09/08/2012].

 


Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Name in compensation records
W. Dent
Occupation
China Merchant
Oxford DNB Entry

Associated Claims (2)

£7,929 7s 11d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
£5,918 7s 4d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)

Legacies Summary

Commercial (2)

Name partner
Palmer, McKillop, Dent & Co.
East India merchant  
 
Name partner
Colin Campbell & Co.
General overseas merchant  
 

Relationships (2)

Business partners
Business partners

Addresses (2)

8 Fitzroy Square, London, Middlesex, London, England
Flass House, Maulds Meaburn, Cumberland, North-west England, England