Dent, John Charles (1841-1888), was a Canadian journalist and historian. He is best known for The Last Forty Years (1881), a history of Canada from 1841 to 1881. He also wrote The Canadian Portrait Gallery (1880-1881) and The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion (1885).
Dent was born on Nov. 8, 1841, at Kendal, England, but came to Canada as an infant with his parents. He became a lawyer, but practiced for only a short time. He returned to England and served as a journalist with the London Daily Telegraph. He became editor of the Evening Telegram in 1876, and later joined the editorial staff of the Globe of Toronto. Dent died on Sept. 27, 1888.
