Author: Sladden, Dilnot
Biography:
SLADDEN, Dilnot (1814-39: findmypast.co.uk)
He was born on 24 Jan. and baptised on 12 Apr. 1814 at Alkham, Kent, the third of four sons of Isaac Sladden (1784-1861), a farmer, and his wife Elizabeth Dilnot (1782-1816) who had married at Westcliffe, Kent, in 1809. He was articled in 1829 and qualified as a solicitor in 1834. He was active in conservative voter registration and was Clerk to the Board of the Union Workhouse, Herne Common, Kent. He died at his father’s house on 25 June 1839, and was buried at St. Mary the Virgin, Eastry. In addition to his The Northmen (1834), a long historical poem with extensive notes, he published a verse drama, Montezuma (1838). After his death, his brother John Sladden edited The Spirit of Beauty (1840), a long blank-verse philosophical poem. A few of his poems were also included in H. G. Adams’s The Kentish Coronal (1841). (findmypast.co.uk 28 Oct. 2020; ancestry.co.uk 28 Oct. 2020; Sun 28 June 1839; W. F. Shaw, Liber Estriae [Eastry] [1870] 123) AA