Samuel Kent (c. 1683 – 8 October 1759) was an MP for Ipswich in the 8th, 9th, and 10th Parliament of Great Britain,Beatson at p. 182 sitting from 23 January 1735Beatson at p. vii to his death in 1759., , accessed 7 January 2009
He was a younger son of Thomas Kent of Christchurch, Southwark, a Norway merchant.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey for 1729–30. In 1731 he acquired the Fornham Hall estate at Fornham St. Genevieve, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. He served as "Distiller to the Court" in 1739.Beatson at p. 182, n.9 As an MP he reliably voted with the Whig court of George II.
He died in 1759. He had married Sarah, the daughter of Richard Dean, skinner, of London, and had two sons and a daughter, Sarah, who married Charles Egleton father of Sir Charles Kent, 1st Baronet. His estate passed in turn to a son and then his daughter Sarah and her husband.
References
Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of the British Parliament, from the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1807: From the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament Of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland in 1807, Volume 1, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme by J. Chalmers & Co., 1807; (PDF)