Background
KENT, Thomas was born on April 3, 1922 in Stafford, England. Son of John T. and Frances (Worrall) Kent.
KENT, Thomas was born on April 3, 1922 in Stafford, England. Son of John T. and Frances (Worrall) Kent.
Born in Stafford, England, Kent graduated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and worked as a journalist for The Manchester Guardian and The Economist.
Thomas Worrall (Tom) Kent, Central Committee (April 3, 1922 – November 15, 2011) was a Canadian economist, journalist, editor, public servant, and industrialist. In 1954 he immigrated to Canada to become editor of the Winnipeg Free Press. He later served as a key advisor to Primer Minister Lester Pearson, and was the architect of the federal Liberal revival of the 1960s.
He was a leading thinker behind the socio-economic strategies of the 1970s, and served as deputy minister of immigration in the government of Lester Pearson.
Kent served as president of the Cape Breton Development Corporation, and later of the Sydney Steel Corporation In 1980 he was appointed to chair the Royal Commission on Newspapers, which would become known as the Kent Commission.
In his later years, Kent was a Fellow with Queen"s University"s School of Policy Studies.
Pearson Institute for Institute Development 1985-1989.
Married Phyllida A. Cross in 1944.