Author talk:Charles Harry Dant

Birth and Death dates

Found this reference That does not appear to be the author, documenting for completeness.

• Charles H. DANT 1853 -1927 at wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com under Descendants of Cezar Mattingly

 # ID: I15495
 # Name: Charles H. DANT
 # Sex: M
 # Birth: 22 OCT 1853 in Chicago, Marion County, Kentucky
 # Death: 14 NOV 1927 in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
 # Burial: St. Francis Assisi Cemetery
 # Note: Baptized Charles Dant, April 1854, by Rev. E. O'Driscoll at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. Birth date, 10-22-1853. Sponsor, Catherine Goodrum. Parents, James Dant & Eliza Blair.

Authors work was done in "INGLEDENE," COLLIER'S WOOD, MERTON, SURREY. per note in book Page:Distinguished Churchmen.djvu/13 as well as the book being published in London Page:Distinguished Churchmen.djvu/9 indicates the author is born in the London area. W:Colliers Wood an area in south London, England, in the London Borough of Merton. Jeepday (talk) 12:06, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

• Son? This looks like a strong possibility for the obit of the son of this Charles Dant, it says charles was not alive in 1918. - Sidney Horace DANT - Private, 44643, "D" Coy. 8th Bn., Gloucestershire Regiment who died on Thursday, 30th May 1918. Age 18. Born Cambridge, enlisted Whitehall, London. Son of Elizabeth Ann Dant, of 20, Victoria Rd., Cambridge, and the late Charles Dant. Fromerly 537227, London, Regiment. Commemorated on Soissons Memorial, Aisne, France Roll of Honour Jeepday (talk) 16:37, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Birth

Births Mar 1869
Dant Charles Harry Chesterton 3b 498 "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. 

Death

Deaths Jun 1938
DANT Charles H 70 Weymouth 5a 339 "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. 

Birth year 1869

Found it! The Dalton McCaughey Library 7. Archbishop Temple : being the people's life of the Right Hon. and Most Rev. Frederick Temple, P.C., D.D., LL.D., Primate of All England and Metropolitan / by Charles H. Dant. by Dant, Charles H. (Charles Harry), b. 1869. London : W. Scott Pub. Co., 1903.

Resource requiring special access

There is a listing at The National Archives [no title] OJL/1/114/1 2/1/1917 Contents: Charles H. Dant , that limits access to registered users. Jeepday (talk) 16:56, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Done

Ok, I have exhausted current online sources, Death date does not appear to be available. Jeepday (talk) 17:05, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Biographical refs

Name: Charles Harry Dant
Birth - Death: 1869-
Source Citation:

• Who Was Who among English and European Authors, 1931-1949. Based on entries which first appeared in The Author's and Writer's Who's Who and Reference Guide, originally compiled by Edward Martell and L.G. Pine, and in Who's Who among Living Authors of Older Nations, originally compiled by Alberta Lawrence. Three volumes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1978. (WhE&EA)

Administration

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1861-1941, 1938 D, p.17
DANT the reverend Charles Harry of Dorchester House Chickerell-road Weymouth Dorsetshire clerk died 9 June 1938 at Moffat House Weymouth Administration London 17 October to Louie Jane Dant widow and Dora Grace Craig (wife of James Douglas Craig). Effect £1082 11s. 7d.

Crockford's 1932

DANT, Charles Harry.—d 1926, p 1927 Chelmsf. L. to Offic. in St. Bar. W. Silvertown, 1926; Perm. to Offic. at St. Gabr. (in c. of St. Mk.) Walthamstow, 1926-28; R. of Lammas w Hautbois Parva 1928-30; Babcary, Dio. B. and W. from 1920. (P, Ch. Assoc. Trust; T.R.C. 431l w 38 a Gl. val. 70l; Gross Inc. 506l, Net 445l and Ho; Pop. 243) Babcary Rectory, Taunton.

author, Distinguished Churchmen and Phases of Church Work, 1902; The People's Life of Archbishop Temple, 1903; Do we Believe? 1909

England census

1901

London > Clapham > District 39 > 34
living with wife and daughter, occupation given as Parliamentary reporter

1891

Cambridgeshire > Chesterton > District 3 > 28
Living with parents and siblings, occupation given as newspaper reporter