Kent
Kent names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Kent JAMES, an American jurist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES, an American jurist; V. Y., July 31, 1762 born in Philippi, N. Y., July 31, 1763. Author of the famous "Commentaries Commentarie on American Law" (4 vols. 1826-1830), 1826-1880 which holds in this country a position y a positio Blackstone similar to that occupied by Blackstone's "Commentaries" in Great Britain. It Britain. contains not only federal jurisprudence, ederal jurisprudenc but the municipal law written and unlaw written and ur eral States. He wa written of the several States. He was chief-justice and chancellor of the State ancellor of the Sta of New York. He died in New York, died in New York Dec. 12, 1847. BT, a beautiful mot
Kent JACOB FORD, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JACOB FORD, an American military officer, born in Philadelphia in 1835. He was educated in private schools and at Mount Pleasant Military Academy and at the United States Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1861. He served throughout the Civil thro War, rising to the rank of captain. He rank of was promoted to various grades and in arious 1898 was made major-general of volun- Jor-gene teers. He served through the Spanish- Chrough American War with great distinction. th great He was honorably discharged from voldischarg ica in 1898. E died Dec. 22, 1918. an American jurist
Kent an important county lying in the southeastern angle of England
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
an important county lying in the southeastern angle of England. It lies between the Thames and the Strait of Dover. It is a rich agricultural country. It produces great quantities of vegetables for the markets of London, and is one of the great hop-raising regions of England. Historically, the country is the center of the ancient kingdom of Kent formed by the Jutes. The insurrections of Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, and Sir Thomas Wyatt emanated from Kent. The cathedrals of Rochester and Canterbury are in this county. See Canterbury
Kent DUKE OF, 4th son of George III
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DUKE OF, 4th son of George III., and father of Queen Victoria; born Queen in Buckingham Palace, London, Nov. 2, 1767; married Victoria Mary Louisa, May 28, 1818; died in Sidmouth, Devonin Bidni shire, England, Jan. 23, 1820. See VIC- 23.132 TORIA.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Aiton's 1910 note that Kent is "one of the great hop-raising regions of England" no longer holds in anything like the old sense: the hop gardens and oast houses survive largely as scenery, and English hop growing has shrunk to a small acreage shared between Kent and Herefordshire, though the county still trades as the "Garden of England" for fruit and vegetables. The county Aiton described has also lost territory and gained a tunnel: its north-western parishes, including Bromley and Bexley, were absorbed into Greater London in 1965, Medway became a separate unitary authority in 1998, and since 1994 the Channel Tunnel has run from Folkestone under the Strait of Dover, with high-speed trains reaching London from Ashford since 2007. Canterbury and Rochester cathedrals stand as described, and Canterbury's became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988. Collier's other Kents are unaltered by time, save that James Kent's "Commentaries on American Law" is now read as legal history rather than working law, and its birthplace note is garbled — he was born in 1763 in what is now Putnam County, New York.
Written for this edition, 2026.