Background
KENT, Bruce was born on June 22, 1929. Son of Kenneth Kent and Rosemary Kent (née Marion).
campaigner for nuclear disarmament
KENT, Bruce was born on June 22, 1929. Son of Kenneth Kent and Rosemary Kent (née Marion).
Kent was educated in Canada before attending Stonyhurst College.
Active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament), he was the organisation"s general secretary from 1980 to 1985 and its chair from 1987 to 1990. He now holds the honorary title of vice-president In 1960 he joined the Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, a specialist section of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
He served as an officer in the Royal Tank Regiment from 1947 to 1949 and afterwards read jurisprudence at Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1949 to 1952.
In 1958 Kent was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest and was a chaplain to the University of London from 1966 to 1974. He was chair of the charity War on Want from 1974 to 1976.
From 1985 to 1992 Kent succeeded Sean MacBride as President of the International Peace Bureau. In 1992 Kent was a candidate for the Labour Party in the constituency of Oxford West and Abingdon, where he came third.
Had he been elected, he would at the time have been prevented, as an ordained priest, from taking his seat in the House of Commons.
Sitting Member of Parliament and former Conservative minister John Patten, also a Catholic, retained his seat. Kent is also a member of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Married Valerie Flessati in 1988.