Draft:Frederick Dent
 | Review waiting, please be patient.
This may take 8 weeks or more, since drafts are reviewed in no specific order. There are 2,510 pending submissions waiting for review.
Where to get help
How to improve a draft
You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article. Improving your odds of a speedy review To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags. Editor resources
Reviewer tools
|
Frederick Dent (born Frederick Rippon; c.1814 – 25 April 1860) was a British clock, watch and chronometer maker. The son of Elizabeth Rippon, he took the surname Dent when his widowed mother married the clockmaker Edward John Dent; he later succeeded Dent in business and traded as E. Dent & Co.[1]
Dent is best known for completing the mechanism of the Great Clock (Big Ben) after Edward John Dent’s death in 1853; the movement was finished in 1854 and installed in the tower in 1859.[2][3][4]
 1856. A notice inscribed on the clock reads : "This clock was made in the year of Our Lord 1854 by Frederick Dent of the Strand and of the Royal Exchange from the designs of Ed. Beckett Denison Esq." |
He held appointments as watchmaker to Queen Victoria and worked from London addresses including 61 Strand and 34 Royal Exchange.[5] Dent died in 1860; the firm continued to trade in his name until 1864, after which business under the Dent name persisted through successor companies in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (see Dent (watchmaker)).[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Frederick Dent". The British Museum. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
Born Frederick Rippon, took the name Dent when his widowed mother married Edward John Dent… whom he succeeded in business. Watchmaker to Queen Victoria. Died in 1860; business continued in his name until 1864.
- ^ "Constructing the most accurate clock in the world". UK Parliament. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
- ^ "Building the Great Clock" (PDF). UK Parliament (archived pamphlet). Retrieved 27 August 2025.
Dent died in 1853 and his stepson, Frederick, completed the clock in 1854.
- ^ "Big Ben". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
…it was subsequently finished by his son, Frederick Dent.
- ^ "Frederick Dent". The British Museum. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
- ^ "E. Dent & Co". The British Museum. Retrieved 27 August 2025.