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Benjamin Archer Kent [B 7556] • Photograph

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Summary

Portrait of Dr Benjamin Archer Kent, who had land holdings in the Kent Town area in the 1840s and 1850s. [See 'Fifty years history of Kensington and Norwood' page 21.]

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Physical description

Photograph; 13.0 cm x 8.3 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1864

Photographer

Seeley, Alfred

Collection

Part of Portrait Collection

Subject

Kent, Benjamin Archer, 1808-1864

Catalogue record

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Historical information

Benjamin Archer Kent (1808-1864) attended Medical School at Edinburgh University and was awarded his MD by the University on 11 March 1831. On or after 14 March 1831 he married Marjory Redman Bona (1811-1859) of Edinburgh, with who he had four children, two girls born in England and a boy and a girl born in Australia (arriving in Adelaide in 1840). After his first wife died he married, in London, Josephine Newman (1837-1928), daughter of John Newman of The Brocas, Woodville Road, Woodville, S.A. There were four children of the second marriage, of whom three survived to have children of their own. In September 1877. Dr Kent was Provincial Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of South Australia (of English Freemasons). He returned to England some time before his death in London on 25 November 1864.

Digitisation information

Date

01/11/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,070 x 3,100 pixels (6.4 MP)

Size

6.44 MB

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