William Kent (died 1632), of Dinton,

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; later of Durrington and Boscombe House, East Boscombe,

, was an English estate manager and politician. The son of a Wiltshire gentleman farmer, the proceeds from his employment as an estate manager for the 3rd and 4th

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enabled him to buy East Boscombe manor (with 430 acres at the time of his death) along with other land nearby. He was a

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(MP) for

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in the short-lived Parliament of 1614. Kent was married in or before 1604. His wife, whose name is not recorded, predeceased him; they had one son, also William (d. 1666).

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