Hi, Annie,
And welcome to Rootschat! How wonderful that you are directly descended from the DENT glovemaking family. This thread has lain dormant for over 4 years, and I presumed had been forgotten about, but not so.
I remember a while ago looking on Ancestry and discovering in one of the first telephone directories the phone number of DENT's gloves, and right underneath (or above, I'm not sure) the Di (or De) Ferranti number, the electrical firm that another gt-grandfather of mine worked for in the late 19th and early 20thC...
Both firms must have been quite go-ahead in their approach to business in those early days,
Regards, keith