Edmund Denton

Sir Edmund Denton, 1st Baronet ( 1676 – 4 May 1714), of Hillesden, Buckinghamshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1698 to 1713.

Denton was baptized on 25 October 1676, the eldest son of (M.P. for Buckingham 1690–1698) and his wife Esther or Hester Herman, daughter of Nicholas Herman of Middleton Stony. He was the member of a Cumberland family which had been granted the manor of Hillesdon by King Edward IV.^[1] He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford in 1695 and was admitted at Middle Temple in 1697.^[2] He succeeded his father in 1698.

Denton was returned as Member of Parliament for Buckingham at the 1698 English general election.^[3] On 12 May 1699 he was created a baronet, of Hillesdon in the County of Buckingham.^[4] 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.^[3]

Denton married with a dowry of £10,000 Mary Rowe, daughter and co-heiress of Anthony Rowe, of Hackney, Middlesex. The marriage was childless. He died in May 1714, aged 37, when the baronetcy became extinct. Lady Denton married as her second husband Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough and died in 1742.^[1] Denton was the elder brother of Alexander Denton.^[3]

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