Thomas Kent was born in 1865. Following a raid by the Royal Irish Constabulary on his home in Castlelyons, Co. Cork on the 22nd of April 1916, Kent was arrested and his brother Richard was fatally wounded. Kent had intended travelling to Dublin to participate in the Rising, however when the mobilisation order for the Irish Volunteers was cancelled on Easter Sunday he assumed that the Rising had been postponed and so he remained in Cork. He was executed at Cork Detention Barracks on the 9th of May 1916 following a court martial. In 1966, the railway station in Cork was renamed Kent Station in his honour.