Alfred Dent

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Alfred Dent

KCMG (12 December 1844 – 23 November 1927) was a British colonial merchant and entrepreneur. He was a founder of the British North Borneo Company.[1]

Life

Dent was born in London, the son of Thomas Dent. He was educated at Eton College which he attended from 1858 to 1862, subsequently becoming a partner in the family business of Dent & Co.

British North Borneo

In the course of business Dent travelled in

Richard Biddulph Martin. Subsequently the British North Borneo Provisional Association was formed in 1881; it obtained a royal charter and became, in May 1882, the British North Borneo Company, also known as the North Borneo Chartered Company.[2]

Dent became head of the firm of Dent Brothers and Co, merchants and commission agents in the City of London. Other business positions held by Dent included chairmanship of the Caledonian (Ceylon) Tea and Rubber Estates and the Shanghai Electric Construction Company and directorships of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, the London County and Westminster Bank and the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation.[2]

Later life

In 1896 he married Margaret Aird with whom he had a son, Leslie Alfred Dent, born in 1897. In 1898 Dent was appointed a member of the

High Sheriff of Sussex in 1908.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Alfred Dent". Parsons Family. Archived from the original on 3 October 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "Alfred Dent Obituary". The Times. 24 November 1927.


Stub icon

This article about a British businessperson born in the 1840s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alfred_Dent&oldid=1197289318"