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| 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 WORKS BY Thomas Gent:
Lines suggested by the Death of the Princess Charlotte. Found 4.
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Monody: to the Memory of Right Honorable Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Found 2.
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Poems. Found 1.
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