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unusual facts about Frederick B. Dent


Frederick B. Dent

From 1958 until 1972 and 1977 until 1988, Dent was the president of Mayfair Mills in Arcadia, South Carolina.


Edward Payson Dutton

In 1906 Dutton struck what proved to be a significant deal with the English publishing company of J. M. Dent to be the American distributor of the Everyman's Library series of classic literature reprints.

Ellen Marriage

A. R. Waller, a critic who was a neighbour of the Marriage family, suggested she do translations when he proposed to the London publisher J. M. Dent that his firm embark on the first complete edition of Balzac's immense novel cycle La Comédie humaine.

Frederick B. Karl

In a 2010 news article, Karl told a reporter that he was suffering from heart disease along with a progressive form of Parkinson's disease and diabetes.

Frederick B. Llewellyn

Llewellyn helped develop the first public ship-to-shore telephone service, inaugurated in 1929 on the SS Leviathan.

Frederick B. Townsend House

This native son belonged to an elite family tree that included such prominent residents as Daniel Pierce, his maternal great-grandfather, who founded the National Bank & Trust Co. in 1867.

Frederick B. Williams

From 1971-2005, Williams led as Vicar and Rector at the Church of the Intercession, an Episcopal church in Harlem, New York at the border of Washington Heights.

Frederick Lindstrom

Frederick B. Lindstrom (1915–1998), American academic; longtime professor of sociology at Arizona State University

Margaret Bent

Her awards include the Royal Musical Association’s Dent medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship, the F. Ll. Harrison medal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, the Claude V. Palisca award of the American Musicological Society, and honorary doctorates from the universities of Glasgow, Notre Dame and Montréal.

St Andrew's Church, Dent

The stained glass in the east window depicts the Te Deum.

True Davidson

Davidson wrote children's books and for a time worked for textbook publisher J.M. Dent and Sons as a salesperson, visiting school boards across the country.


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