Lancelot Dent
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Lancelot Dent was a 19th-century British merchant resident for a period in Canton, China who dealt primarily in opium.
He was christened on August 4, 1799, in Crosby Ravensworth, Westmorland, England, son of William and Jane (Wilkinson) Dent.
Lancelot took over as senior partner of trading house
Together with Thomas, Lancelot commissioned construction of
Lancelot and John Dent were consuls of Italy in Hong Kong.[citation needed]
Lancelot had a son, John Dent Fish born 1828 in Macau, with Mary Colledge, the sister of Thomas Richardson Colledge. She later married Captain John Fish and her son adopted his stepfather's surname, but Lancelot was listed as the father in documents.[3]
Dent died in London on 28 November 1853 aged 54 and buried at St Lawrence's Church Crosby Ravensworth Cumbria
See also
- Anglo-Chinese relations
References
- ^ "About Flass House". Archived from the original on March 16, 2012. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
- ISBN 1-56836-002-9.
- ^ "Rev JOHN DENT FISH 1828 -1868". Retrieved 2021-10-02.