Kent Walton Kent Walton Kent Walton (22 August 1917 – 24 August 2003), born Kenneth Walton Beckett, was a British television sports commentator, presenter and actor. He is best remembered as the predominant commentator on ITV's coverage of British professional wrestling from 1955-1988. Despite a transatlantic accent which led many to believe he was Canadian, he was born in Cairo, Egypt, the son of the finance minister in the colonial government. He grew up at Haslemere in Surrey and went to Charterhouse School. He attended the Embassy School of Acting in London and appeared in rep. On the outbreak of war in
Kent School the two schools have a day dedicated to competing against each other, historically called Loomis Day. The Kent School Boat Club was begun at Kent in 1922 with the encouragement of Father Sill. Father Sill was the coxswain of the Columbia crew which won the first ever Poughkeepsie Regatta and was very familiar with the sport. The program developed very quickly and in the ensuing years, Kent began competing with the Yale and Harvard teams. By 1927, Kent became the first American school crew to row at the Henley Royal Regatta and compete for the Thames Challenge Cup. Kent returned