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    marine chronometers. He founded the Dent company. Edward John Dent, son of John and Elizabeth Dent, was born in London on 19 August 1790. He was baptised...
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  • Edward Dent may refer to: Edward John Dent (1790–1853), clockmaker who designed Big Ben Edward Joseph Dent (1876–1957), professor of music This disambiguation...
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    and George Airy, the Astronomer Royal, and constructed by Edward John Dent and Frederick Dent. It is known for its reliability, and can be adjusted by...
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  • Dent was a London manufacturer of luxury clocks and watches, founded by Edward John Dent. Dent began making watches in 1814, although the Dent triangular...
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    Edward Joseph Dent FBA (16 July 1876 – 22 August 1957), generally known as Edward J. Dent, was an English musicologist, teacher, translator and critic...
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  • Henry Watches Daniel Wellington George Daniels Aaron Lufkin Dennison Edward John Dent Diesel Dior DKNY Dolce & Gabbana D. Dornblüth & Sohn Doxa S.A. Dreffa...
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    feet (54 m) above street level on a clock tower which has a clock by Edward John Dent. A similar grasshopper weathervane on the Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts...
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  • enthusiast Edward John Dent (1790–1853), English watch maker Edward Joseph Dent (1876–1957), English musicologist and biographer of Handel Emma Dent (1823–1900)...
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    Battista Amici[citation needed] in the first half of the 19th century. Edward John Dent, a chronometer and clockmaker in London, was working in the 1830s on...
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  • John Dent Dent (11 June 1826 – 22 December 1894) was a Liberal Party politician in England. He was born John Dent Trickett, the eldest son of Leeds merchant...
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    houses the Great Clock, which uses the original mechanism built by Edward John Dent to designs by amateur horologist Edmund Beckett Denison. It is highly...
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  • Frederick Cooper(1789-1863) English watchmaker London, pocket watch Edward John Dent (1790–1853), English watchmaker, London, pocket watch, marine chronometer...
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    the County of Northumberland... Mackenzie and Dent. McKendrick, Scot (2011). McKendrick, Scot; Lowden, John; Doyle, Kathleen (eds.). A European Heritage...
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    where he built an observatory tower built housing a clock installed by Edward John Dent, who would later be responsible for building Big Ben. It remained the...
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    England and sent it to Pachuca. He went to the factory founded by Edward John Dent and there discussed the acquisition clock and carillon. The machinery...
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    January 2012. "Arnold & Dent", British Museum Collection Database, retrieved and archived 14 January 2012. "Edward John Dent", British Museum Collection...
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    cost of £150. It was designed by Edmund Beckett Denison and built by Edward John Dent. It is hand-wound once a week. Between 1783 and 1787, the poet George...
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    Gothic style. Its clock was designed by Edmund Beckett and made by Edward John Dent, who was responsible for Big Ben. It has three faces, as there was...
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  • London-based) chronometer houses sprang up, great names like John Arnold, Edward John Dent, Thomas Earnshaw, Charles Frodsham, Hamilton, and Robert Molyneux...
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    Retrieved 25 April 2020. Mercer, Vaudrey (1977). The Life and Letters of Edward John Dent, Chronometer Maker, and Some Account of His Successors. London: The...
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    to the story" quote, Dent said "the other side to right is wrong." Edward J. Green of the Socialist Party of America called Dent "an imperialist." He...
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    was installed over the stable block, constructed by the clockmaker Edward John Dent, the man behind the clock movement in Big Ben in the Palace of Westminster...
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    2005 ISBN 1-904642-92-6. Mercer, Vaudrey, "The life and letters of Edward John Dent, chronometer maker, and some of his successors", Antiquarian Horological...
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    Vernon Bruce Dent (February 16, 1895 – November 5, 1963) was an American comic actor, who appeared in over 400 films. He co-starred in many short films...
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    Directories. 1884. p. 36. Mercer, Vaudrey (1977). The Life and Letters of Edward John Dent, Chronometer Maker, and Some of His Successors. Antiquarian Horological...
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    8-day Naval Chronometer No. 1287 unfinished – it was completed by Edward John Dent for Kessels' widow. (in German) Oestmann, Günther, Heinrich Johann...
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    gift from John Keswick, who had in turn received it from the Prince of Belgium. The mechanism was manufactured by British company Edward John Dent, which...
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    Daniell (1818–1865) Henry De la Beche FRS (1796–1855) Edward John Dent (1790–1853) Alexander John Ellis FRS (1814–1890) Hugh Falconer FRS (1808–1865) David...
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    Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzène Speransky,[needs IPA] Princess Cantacuzène, Countess Speransky (June 6, 1876 – October 4, 1975), was an American author and...
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    of King Edward III, and was praised as a diligent and hard-working Crown official, who damaged his health through overwork. He was born at Dent, then in...
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