| 词条 | Alfred Dent |
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LifeDent 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 BorneoIn the course of business Dent travelled in eastern and south-eastern Asia, in 1878 inducing the Sultan of Sulu to transfer his rights and claims over northern Borneo to a syndicate formed by Dent and Gustav Overbeck, the main promoters of which were Sir Rutherford Alcock, Sir Harry Keppel and 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 lifeIn 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 Indian Currency Commission and, in the same year was made a Knight Commander in the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG). He had a house at Eastbourne in south-east England, and served as High Sheriff of Sussex in 1908.[2] References1. ^{{cite web |url=http://parsonsfamily.blogware.com/indiI1859.html |title=Alfred Dent |accessdate=10 February 2012 |work=Parsons Family |first= |last= |publisher= |date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003181925/http://parsonsfamily.blogware.com/indiI1859.html |archive-date=3 October 2011 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Dent, Alfred}}{{UK-business-bio-1840s-stub}}2. ^1 2 {{cite news |title=Alfred Dent Obituary |publisher=The Times |date=24 November 1927 |accessdate= }} 11 : 1844 births|1927 deaths|History of Sabah|British North Borneo|Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George|British merchants|People educated at Eton College|Businesspeople from London|High Sheriffs of Sussex|People of British Borneo|British colonial governors and administrators in Asia |
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