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Samuel Kent (c. 1683 – 8 October 1759) was an MP for Ipswich in the 8th, 9th, and 10th Parliament of Great Britain,[1] sitting from 23 January 1735[2] to his death in 1759.[3]
He was a younger son of Thomas Kent of Christchurch, Southwark, a Norway merchant.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey for 1729–30.[4] In 1731 he acquired the Fornham Hall estate at Fornham St. Genevieve, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. He served as "Distiller to the Court" in 1739.[5] As an MP he reliably voted with the Whig court of George II.
He died in 1759. He had married Sarah, the daughter of Richard Dean, skinner, of London, and had 2 sons and a daughter, Sarah, who married Charles Egleton (later Sir Charles Kent, 1st Baronet).[4] His estate passed in turn to a son and then his daughter Sarah and her husband.
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