Wilkinson Dent

Partner in Campbell Dent (q.v., under Colin Campbell & Co.) awarded with his co-partners the compensation for two estates in British Guiana. He was later a partner in the family firm that, among other activities, traded opium to China.

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.

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].