Edmund Denton

File:Memorial to Mary Rowe, Viscountess of Hillsborough, in All Saints' Church, Hillesden.JPG

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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=K1kBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA159 John Burke, Esq. & John Bernard Burke, Esq. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England]. Accessed 30 January 2023. He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford in 1695, and was admitted at Middle Temple in 1697.{{cite web |url = https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp366-405 |title = Dabbe-Dirkin in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 pp. 366-405 |author = Foster, Joseph |publisher = British History Online |access-date = 9 June 2019 |archive-date = 6 April 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190406204532/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp366-405 |url-status = live }} He succeeded his father in 1698.

Denton was returned as Member of Parliament for Buckingham at the 1698 English general election.{{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/denton-edmund-1676-1714 | title= DENTON, Edmund (1676-1714), of Hillesden, Bucks. | publisher= History of Parliament Online| access-date = 9 June 2019 }} 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.{{Citation| editor-last=Cokayne| editor-first=George Edward |year=1904 | title= Complete Baronetage volume 4 (1665-1707) | url= http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924092524408#page/n199/mode/2up| volume=4| location=Exeter | publisher=William Pollard and Co| access-date = 9 June 2019}} 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.

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