John Rodolphus Kent
(????-1837)
Naval officer, trader
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John Rodolphus Kent (died 1 January 1837) was a Royal Navy officer and trader who settled in New Zealand in 1827. He first started sailing to New Zealand from Port Jackson (Sydney) in New South Wales in 1820. He settled in the Hokianga in 1827, then moved to Kāwhia in 1828 to trade with the Waikato tribes. There he met Te Wherowhero, the paramount chief of Waikato, and married his daughter Tiria. He died at Kahawai on the Manukau Harbour on 1 January 1837.
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