The son of Sabine Ellen and Thomas Dent, he was baptised at St Mary's Paddington Green in London on 6 October 1840. He was living with his parents at 12 Hyde Park Gardens in the 1851 and 1861 censuses. He was admitted as a pensioner at Trinity College Cambridge on 8 October 1858, matriculating at Michaelmas the following year. He graduated BA in 1863, the same year as he was ordained a deacon in the Church of England by the Bishop of Oxford, being priested the following year.
His first curacy was at Great Bourton in Oxfordshire (1864-1865), followed by others at St Hilda's in South Shields in County Durham (1866-1867), Hilperton in Wiltshire (1868-1869), Burford back in Oxfordshire (1869-1870), Slough in Berkshire (1871-1873) and finally Beckenham in Kent (1873-1875). On the night of the 1871 census he was living at 2 Westmoreland Road in Bayswater, London with his wife, two children and two servants, perhaps meaning his curacy in Slough only commenced later that year.
In the meantime, in 1866, he gained his Cambridge MA. He became Vicar of St Augustine's in Haggerston, east London from 1875 to 1880 but did not find another job for five years, appearing as a "Clergyman Church of England, without cure of souls" in the 1881 census, when he and his family were back in Paddington, this time at 1 Westbourne Street. His final post was as curate at Abingdon from 1885 to 1889, moving to West End House in Pinner by the time of the 1891 census.
The family was probably at 76 Westbourne Terrace in Paddington on 28 June 1900 when his second son Montagu Charles died there. By 1905 Charles and his wife gave both 104 Gloucester Terrace in Paddington and 'The Cottage' in Sunningdale as their addresses, with Marion dying at the latter on 22 November 1905. Charles resigned as Poor Law Guardian for Lancaster Gate, East Ward in January 1906 ('Paddington Guardians', Bayswater Chronicle, 20 January 1906, page 6).
Charles, his wife and their son Montagu are also commemorated in the north transept of the church by a window funded by their two surviving children, Lancelot Wilkinson Dent (1868-1947) and Sabine Marion Dent (c.1871-1965), whilst Charles also appears on his father's grave in Kensal Green Cemetery.
The son of Sabine Ellen and Thomas Dent, he was baptised at St Mary's Paddington Green in London on 6 October 1840. He was living with his parents at 12 Hyde Park Gardens in the 1851 and 1861 censuses. He was admitted as a pensioner at Trinity College Cambridge on 8 October 1858, matriculating at Michaelmas the following year. He graduated BA in 1863, the same year as he was ordained a deacon in the Church of England by the Bishop of Oxford, being priested the following year.
His first curacy was at Great Bourton in Oxfordshire (1864-1865), followed by others at St Hilda's in South Shields in County Durham (1866-1867), Hilperton in Wiltshire (1868-1869), Burford back in Oxfordshire (1869-1870), Slough in Berkshire (1871-1873) and finally Beckenham in Kent (1873-1875). On the night of the 1871 census he was living at 2 Westmoreland Road in Bayswater, London with his wife, two children and two servants, perhaps meaning his curacy in Slough only commenced later that year.
In the meantime, in 1866, he gained his Cambridge MA. He became Vicar of St Augustine's in Haggerston, east London from 1875 to 1880 but did not find another job for five years, appearing as a "Clergyman Church of England, without cure of souls" in the 1881 census, when he and his family were back in Paddington, this time at 1 Westbourne Street. His final post was as curate at Abingdon from 1885 to 1889, moving to West End House in Pinner by the time of the 1891 census.
The family was probably at 76 Westbourne Terrace in Paddington on 28 June 1900 when his second son Montagu Charles died there. By 1905 Charles and his wife gave both 104 Gloucester Terrace in Paddington and 'The Cottage' in Sunningdale as their addresses, with Marion dying at the latter on 22 November 1905. Charles resigned as Poor Law Guardian for Lancaster Gate, East Ward in January 1906 ('Paddington Guardians', Bayswater Chronicle, 20 January 1906, page 6).
Charles, his wife and their son Montagu are also commemorated in the north transept of the church by a window funded by their two surviving children, Lancelot Wilkinson Dent (1868-1947) and Sabine Marion Dent (c.1871-1965), whilst Charles also appears on his father's grave in Kensal Green Cemetery.
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