age ~73
from Neeses, SC
1607
16th-century English writer
Position:Author • Minister
He matriculated as a pensioner of Christ's College, Cambridge, in November 1571.
In 1582 he was one of the witnesses examined in support of charges brought against Robert Wright ( Puritan ), a Puritan minister.
English writer • 17th-century English writer
Ascribed status:Person of the Tudor period • Person of the Stuart period
…In the novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, on the other hand, Arthur Dent manages to freeze up a Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser (along with the rest of the spaceship they are on) by asking it to make him tea, due to the various servings of the terrible-tasting sludge he'd received ...
…As the menial labourer on the Heart of Gold spaceship, he grew immensely resentful of the insistence of his new masters (Zaphod Beeblebrox and Trillian; later also Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent) that he open doors, check airlocks and pick up pieces of paper. He reserved a particular contempt ...
…The first of these was performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, between 1 and 9May 1979, starring Chris Langham as Arthur Dent (Langham later returned to Hitchhiker's as Prak in the final episode of 2004's Tertiary Phase). This show was adapted from the first series' script...
…When the announcement was made on the BBC Radio 4's news show The Today Programme, a special sketch starring Simon Jones as Arthur Dent (whom he played in the radio and television series) was broadcast. In it, Arthur was angry at the news that he had been "brought back from the dead".[8]&hel...
Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character, the hapless protagonist and anti-hero in the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas
Arthur Dent (died 1607) was the author of The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven, first published in 1601. This was one of the two books that John Bunyan read before