Kent county cricket teams the concept of a Champion County was much older. Kent was duly proclaimed "Champion County" in 1837 and through most of the 1840s. Mainstays of the Kent team in those years included Alfred Mynn, Fuller Pilch, Nicholas Wanostrocht "aka" "Felix", Ned Wenman and William Hillyer. On 6 August 1842, formation of the original Kent County Cricket Club took place in Canterbury. The new club played its initial first-class match against All-England at White Hart Field in Bromley on 25–27 August 1842. On 1 March 1859 a second county club was established in Maidstone to support the Canterbury club. The two
Kent Town, South Australia Kent Town, South Australia Kent Town is an inner urban suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters. Kent Town was named for Dr. Benjamin Archer Kent (1808 – 25 November 1864), who before emigrating was a medical practitioner in Walsall, Staffordshire. He established a flour mill and farm which failed financially and obliged him to return to his profession to support his family. He sold his property at a handsome profit, repaid all his creditors and returned to England. Kent Town was the location of two successive sites of the