REFN: 2140 He became a member of Trinity College in Cambridge University, but obtained the degree of M.B. from Lambeth on March 9, 1677-78. He was incorporated at Cambridge in 1680. He practiced as a physician and apothecary at Cambridge. He was the first Dent to compile the early Dent history, and recorded the Dent pedigree in 1684, which is now in College of Arms, London England. Professor of Natural Science at Cambridge University.