DE NEMOURS, Victoire Auguste Antoinette, Duchesse (only dau. of Ferdinand George Augustus, Duke of Saxe Coburg 1785–1851). b. Vienna 16 Feb. 1822; lived at Claremont, Surrey 1848 to death. (m. 27 April 1840 Duc de Nemours 2 son of Louis Phillippe King of the French, he was b. 25 Oct. 1814). d. Claremont 10 Nov. 1857. bur. in the Taylor vault under R.C. church of St. Charles Borromeo, Weybridge, Nov.; body removed to a mortuary chapel adjoining above church 5 Oct. 1883.
DENHAM, Sir Henry Mangles (son of Henry Denham of Sherborne, Dorset). b. 28 Aug. 1800; entered navy April 1809; captain 17 Aug. 1846; F.R.S. 28 Feb. 1839; a younger brother of Trinity House 1841 to death; employed in the construction of charts 1822–52; inspector of steam-boat accidents; invented a valuable contrivance for steering a ship when disabled called Denham’s Jury Tiller, also Denham’s Rowlocks for rowing boats; knighted at Windsor Castle 26 March 1867; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1851; author of Sailing directions for the British Channel 1839 and other works. d. 21 Carlton road, Maida vale, London 3 July 1887. Min. Proc. I.C.E. xci, 460–62 (1888).
DENHAM, Rev. Joshua Frederick. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; lecturer of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 1828; R. of St. Mary-le Strand, London 1839 to death; F.R.S. 20 May 1841; author of Natural theology 1828; History of the old St. Dunstan’s church 1832; Letters on education 1832 and other books. d. 8 New Inn, Strand, London 26 Jany. 1861 aged 60.
DENHAM, Michael Aislabie. b. near Bowes, Yorkshire; in business at Hull; general merchant at Piercebridge, Durham; printed Folk Lore or a collection of local rhymes, proverbs, sayings, prophecies, slogans, &c. relating to Northumberland, Newcastle-on-Tyne and Berwick-upon-Tweed 1858, and other books on folk lore. d. Piercebridge 10 Sep. 1859.
DENIEHY, Daniel Henry. b. Kent st. Sydney 1828; attorney in Sydney and Goulburn; mem. for Argyle in Representative Assembly 1856–58, for East Macquarie 1858–59; published a series of obituary notices in the Southern Cross 1859–60; edited The Victorian Melbourne weekly paper 1862–64. d. in the hospital, Bathurst 22 Oct. 1865 in 37 year. G. B. Barton’s Poets and prose writers of New South Wales (1866) 94–148.
DENING, Emma Geraldine Henrietta Hamilton (dau. of Thomas Clarence Hooper). b. Paris 30 March 1841, ed. at Bath; converted by Rev. Wm. Haslam; commenced a prayer meeting at Avon st. Bath 1861; preached in Temperance hall, Widcombe, Bath to large congregations 1862; popular preacher in country districts and in tent services; preached about 4500 sermons. (m. 2 Oct. 1868 T. Henry Dening of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, farmer). Mr. and Mrs. Dening by their efforts built St. James’s hall, Bath 1871 where they preached, hall burnt down 1878. d. Green park, Bath 12 Aug. 1872. bur. Locksbrook cemetery 16 Aug. when 6000 people were present. Mrs. G. Guinness’ She spake of Him (1873), portrait; S. D. Major’s Notabilia of Bath (1879) 90, 194.
DENISON, Christopher Beckett (2 son of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4 baronet 1787–1874). b. 9 May 1825; in Bengal C.S. 1845–65; M.P. eastern division of West Riding of Yorkshire 25 Nov. 1868 to 24 March 1880; deputy chairman Great Northern railway, Jany. 1880 to death. d. Ireland 30 Oct. 1884. Catalogue of collection of pictures, &c. of C. B. Denison (1885).
DENISON, Right Rev. Edward (2 son of John Wilkinson, who took name of Denison, of Ossington, co. Nottingham, M.P. for Chichester, who d. 6 May 1820). b. 34 Harley st. London 13 March 1801; ed. at Esher, Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1837; fell. of Merton coll. 1826; V. of St. Peters in the East, Oxford to 1837; select preacher before Univ. of Ox. 1834; bishop of Salisbury 13 March 1837 to death, consecrated at Lambeth 16 April 1837; author of Sermons and charges. d. The Close, Salisbury 6 March 1854. The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 157–62; G.M. April 1854 pp. 418–20.
DENISON, Edward (eld. child of the preceding). b. The Palace, Salisbury 8 Sep. 1840; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; read law 1862–66; lived in Philpot st. Mile end road, London where he built and endowed a school 1867–68; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1868; M.P. for Newark 18 Nov. 1868 to death; left England for Australia, Oct. 1869. d. Melbourne 26 Jany. 1870. Letters and other writings of the late Edward Denison, edited by Sir Baldwyn Leighton 1872; Stray studies by J. R. Green (1876) 3–28.
DENISON, Sir William Thomas (brother of Right Rev. Edward Denison 1801–54). b. Portland place, London 3 May 1804; ed. at Eton and R.M.A. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 15 March 1826; lieut. governor of Tasmania 26 Jany. 1847 to 8 Jany. 1855; governor of New South Wales with title of governor general of Australia 20 Jany. 1855 to 22 Jany. 1861; col. R.E. 20 Sep. 1860 to 7 Nov. 1868; governor of Madras, March 1861 to March 1866; acted as governor general of India 20 Nov. 1863 to Jany. 1864; chairman of commission to inquire into best means of preventing pollution of rivers 6 April 1868 to death; L.G. 23 Nov. 1870; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 Aug. 1846; K.C.B. 19 July 1856; F.R.A.S. 1834; A.I.C.E. 14 March 1837, Telford medallist; F.R.S. 22 Feb. 1838; author of Varieties of viceregal life 2 vols. 1870, and many other works. d. The Observatory, East Sheen 19 Jany. 1871. Papers on subjects connected with duties of Corps of Royal Engineers n.s. xx, pp. ix-xlii, (1872); Therry’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1863) 449–69; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii, 251–59 (1872); Dunkin’s Obituary notices of Astronomers (1879) 32–34.