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OBITUARY. 
Royal Artillery. 
To be Veterinary Surgeons of the First Class. 
Vet.-Surg. Gabriel I. Rollings; Vet.-Surg. Edwin Har¬ 
rison. 
Military Train. 
Vet.-Surg. William Death to be Vet.-Surg. of the First Class. 
OBITUARY. 
We have to record the death of ‘an old and much re¬ 
spected member of the profession, Mr. John Kent, of Bristol, 
who died December 28th, 1862, aged 72, 
Mr. Kent was as w^ell known to the members of the legal 
profession as to those of his own, for the singular interest 
which he took in all cases of veterinary jurisprudence, there 
being few, if any, tried in his own or surrounding counties 
in which his aid was not sought, either as an adviser or as 
a witness. His taste for this branch of his profession often 
led to his travelling miles to be present at “a horse cause, 
and to engage reporters to take full notes of the trial for his 
use, even if he had little otherwise to do with the case. 
It is not improbable that this love of horse law^^ had 
received a strong incentive in his having been called upon, 
several years since, to defend an action brought against himself 
for want of professional skill in bleeding a horse with a lancet, 
thereby causing, as was alleged, the death of the animal. 
The case was tried before the late Mr. Justice Parke and a 
special jury, and a verdict given in his favour, the judge 
strongly expressing himself in support of the view taken by 
the jury. Mr. Kent subsequently published the case in full, 
in the form of a pamphlet, and thereby brought himself 
prominently before the horse-owning public. 
He was an occasional contributor to our pages, his com¬ 
munications being chiefly, as may be supposed, on his 
favorite subject of veterinary jurisprudence. His diploma 
bears date April 13th, 1813, so that at the time of his death 
he had been nearly fifty years a member of the profession. 
' Added to this, we have likewise received information of 
the death of Mr. John Mills Hales, of Oswestry. Mr. Hales 
was a highly respected member of the profession, and held, 
among other appointments, at the time of his death, that of 
Veterinary Surgeon to the North Shropshire Y'eomanry 
Cavalry. His diploma is dated July l6th, 1818. 
