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Lancelot Dent was a 19th-century British merchant resident for a period in Canton, China who dealt primarily in opium.

He was christened on August 4, 1799, in Crosby Ravensworth, Westmorland, England, son of William and Jane (Wilkinson) Dent.

Lancelot took over as senior partner of trading house Dent & Co. headquartered in Canton, when his brother Thomas departed the company in 1831. He had a powerful hold over some agency houses buying opium from the Calcutta auction, including Carr, Tagore and Company, managed by Bengali merchant Dwarkanath Tagore.

Together with Thomas, Lancelot commissioned construction of Flass House, now a grade two listed building in the Palladian style, on land inherited from their sister in England's northern Lake District.^[1] The property would remain in the Dent family until 1972, when it was sold to banker, historian and writer Frank Welsh.^[2]

Lancelot and John Dent were consuls of Italy in Hong Kong.^{[citation needed]}

Lancelot had a son, John Dent Fish born 1828 in Macau, with Mary Colledge, the sister of Thomas Richardson Colledge. She later married Captain John Fish and her son adopted his stepfather's surname, but Lancelot was listed as the father in documents.^[3]

Dent died in London on 28 November 1853 aged 54 and buried at St Lawrence's Church Crosby Ravensworth Cumbria

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^ "About Flass House". Archived from the original on March 16, 2012. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
^ Welsh, Frank (1993). A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong. United States: Kodansha America Inc. p. xi. ISBN 1-56836-002-9.
^ "Rev JOHN DENT FISH 1828 -1868". Retrieved 2021-10-02.

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Chinese Hongs	Ewo Hong Howqua
Foreign Hongs	Augustine Heard & Co. Augustine Heard Albert Heard Dent & Co. Lancelot Dent John Dent Dodwell & Co. Gibb, Livingston & Co. Hugh Bold Gibb Jardine, Matheson & Co. William Jardine James Matheson John Abel Smith Magniac & Co. Daniel Beale Thomas Beale Thomas Chay Beale Hollingworth Magniac Olyphant & Co. David Olyphant Robert Morrison Olyphant Russell & Company Robert Bennet Forbes John Cleve Green Abiel Abbot Low William Henry Low Samuel Russell Russell Sturgis Shewan, Tomes & Co. Robert Shewan David Sassoon & Co. David Sassoon E.D. Sassoon & Co. Elias David Sassoon
Chinese Officials	Lin Zexu
Key Locations	Amoy Canton Fuzhou Hong Kong Macau Shanghai

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