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Kenton, Benjamin (1719–1800), wine merchant and philanthropist  

Norman Moore

revised by Christine Clark

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Kenton, Benjamin (1719–1800), wine merchant and philanthropist, was born on 19 November 1719 at Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London, the son of Benjamin Kenton and his wife, Mary, who kept a small greengrocer's shop. He was educated at the parish charity school and at fifteen he was apprenticed to the landlord of the ...

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Watson, Joshua (1771–1855)  

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Joshua Watson (1771–1855) by William Overend Geller (after Sir William Charles Ross) © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Watson, Joshua (1771–1855), wine merchant and Anglican philanthropist  

Peter B. Nockles

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Watson, Joshua (1771–1855), wine merchant and Anglican philanthropist, was born on 9 May 1771 at Tower Hill, City of London, the second son of John Watson (d. 1821), a wine merchant of Tower Hill, and of Dorothy Robson, a cousin of the watercolour painter ...