Edmund Denton

Biography

Denton was baptized on 25 October 1676, the eldest son of Alexander Denton (1654–1698), MP for Buckingham, 1690–1698, and his wife, Esther (or Hester) Herman, daughter of Nicholas Herman of Middleton Stony. He was a member of a Cumberland family which had been granted the manor of Hillesdon by King Edward IV. He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford in 1695, and was admitted at Middle Temple in 1697. He succeeded his father in 1698.

Denton was returned as Member of Parliament for Buckingham at the 1698 English general election. He was the elder brother of Alexander Denton, a judge.

On 12 May 1699, he was created a baronet, of Hillesdon in the County of Buckingham. He continued to represent Buckingham until the 1708 British general election, when he was returned as MP for Buckinghamshire, a seat he held until 1713.

Denton married, with a dowry of £10,000, Mary Rowe, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Anthony Rowe, (c.1641-1704) of Muswell Hill, Middlesex, MP. The marriage was childless. She survived him and re-married to Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough (1693-1742). He died on 4 May 1714, aged 37, when the baronetcy became extinct.

References

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