John Kent
KENT, John. b. Bideford, Devon, December 1766; d. 15 November 1843. Kent's father moved from Bideford to become a shipwright at Plymouth Dock (Devonport), when John was a child. He followed his father and became a shipwright; JJ wrote of his work, rather patronisingly: ‘his opportunities for acquiring the education and polish necessary for the production of refined verse were naturally limited’ (p. 623).
Also according to JJ, some of his hymns appeared in ‘Samuel Reece’s Collection’. This was A Selection of Evangelical Hymns, a considerable number of which have never been before published, intended for the use of the congregation, meeting in Barrack-Street, Dock (Plymouth Dock, 1799). Kent...
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