Burial
Bent was buried at Devonshire Street Cemetery, now the site of Central Railway in Sydney. He was buried there rather than at Garden Island (upon which Bent had a lease) because of his earlier disagreements with Macquarie.
Later in 1825, when Brevet-Major John Ovens died, Bent was re-interred with him at Garden Island in accordance with Bent's earlier wishes.
Later, his sandstone tomb was transferred to the Rest Park in St Thomas' Cemetery. His headstone is located at the Botany Cemetery, Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. where many of the headstones from the old Devonshire Street cemetery were relocated.
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