DENT,+John

DENT, John (1911-1972) Bournemouth 1928; Merton 1933; Dover 1934; CL Epsom and Ewell 1938-1972 He became an authority on Nonsuch Palace in Ewell, for which Henry VIII had cleared the site, in flagrant defiance of his own Government's Enclosure Acts, and begun to build during the later years of his reign: it was demolished during the Restoration. Dent published //The excavation of Nonsuch Palace// (1959), //The quest for Nonsuch// (1962, second edition 1970) and, with Martin Biddle, //Nonsuch// (1960).