John Kent (numismatist) in AD 491. He also completed two volumes on the Continental Celtic Coins in the British Museum and other collections left incomplete by the death of previous keeper Derek Allen, which were published in 1987 and 1990. In 1974 he was promoted Deputy Keeper, and in 1983 Keeper, of the British Museum's coin and medal collection, a post he held until his retirement in 1990. A commemorative medal was struck to mark his retirement. He died in 2000. He had married Patricia Bunford in 1961 and had a son and a daughter. John Kent (numismatist) John Philip Cozens Kent (28
Collect for Purity Collect for Purity The Collect for Purity is the name traditionally given to the collect prayed near the beginning of the Eucharist in most Anglican rites. It appears in Latin in the 11th-century Leofric missal and was part of the preparation prayers of priests before Mass. Thomas Cranmer translated the prayer into English and from there it has entered almost every Anglican prayer book in the world. In the Leofric missal and the later Sarum Rite, the original Latin prayer occurs as one of the prayers said before Mass: A version appears as the introduction to the 14th Century anonymous