KENT, Richard (c.1642-90), of Westminster and Corsham, Wilts.

Family and Education

b. c. 1642, 3rd s. of Robert Kent of Winterbourne Dauntsey, Wilts. by his w. Dorothy. m. 13 Feb. 1666, aged 23, Bridget (d. 1692), da. of one Harris of Covent Garden, Westminster, 1s. d.v.p. 1da. Wilts. N. and Q. vii. 232–3; St. Mary Somerset Reg. (Harl. Soc. lix), 223.

Offices Held

Clerk of the Pay Office 1661–74; receiver-gen. and cashier of excise 1674–76, commr. 1675–76; receiver-gen. and cashier of customs 1677–89; six clerk in Chancery July–Aug. 1682. Cal. Treas. Bks. iii. 265, 685; iv. 254, 326, 807; C. Clay, Public Finance and Private Wealth, 141–3; T. D. Hardy, Principal Officers of Chancery, 111.

Common councilman, London by 1690.

Parlimentarian

KENT, Richard (c.1643-90), of Westminster and Corsham, Wilts.

Main residences: Westminster; Corsham, Wilts.

Author

D.W.H.

H.J.L.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

KENT, Richard (c.1642-90)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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