Edward Joseph Dent

He was educated at Bilston Grange, and Eton where he was a music student of Charles Harford Lloyd.

[5] Dent was Professor of Music at Cambridge University from 1926 to 1941, where his students included Arthur Bliss, Arnold Cooke and Cecil Armstrong Gibbs.

The music writer and critic Arthur Jacobs commended Dent's opera translations, which "at their best, whether in colloquial or lofty style (The Barber of Seville, The Trojans), reduce me to despair at nearly all later translators' efforts, including my own".

"[7] The character Philip Herriton in E. M. Forster's novel Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) was based on Dent.

The "informal biography" Duet for Two Voices by Hugh Carey was published in 1979, based on the letters.