Thomas Gent

(1780-1832)

NAME AUTHORITIES: 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.”
REFERENCES TO Thomas Gent: Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 18: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 27 The Literary Fund Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 14 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) TOM GENT Found 22: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 ¶ 15 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 ¶ 18 ¶ 20 ¶ 22 ¶ 23 ¶ 25 ¶ 26 ¶ n1 ¶ n1