George Carter Stent

George Carter Stent (1833–1884) was an English soldier in India and China, an agent of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, and a translator of Chinese texts into English.

Life George Carter Stent was born into a family of modest means in Canterbury in 1833. He was the second son of James Stent, of 2 King's Bridge, Canterbury. Shortly after his twentieth birthday he joined the British Army as a soldier of the 14th (King's Light) Dragoons and proceeded with the regiment to India, where in the 1850s he witnessed and later wrote about the Great Mutiny. By the mid-1860s, he was in China, serving in the guard of the British legation at Peking. Chinese and English Pocket Dictionary (Shanghai: Kelly & Co., 1874). The Jade Chaplet, in Twenty-Four Beads (London: London by Trübner & Co., 1874), a collection of songs, ballads, &c., from the Chinese. Entombed Alive, and Other Poems (William H. Allen & Co., 1878), from the Chinese.