DENMAN, Thomas Denman, 1 Baron (only son of Thomas Denman of London, physician 1733–1815). b. Queen st. Golden sq. London 23 Feb. 1779; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1803; a special pleader 1803; barrister L.I. 9 May 1806, bencher 1820; M.P. for Wareham, Dorset 1818; M.P. for Nottingham 1820–26 and 1830–32; solicitor general to Queen Caroline 8 Feb. 1820 to her death 7 Aug. 1821; received freedom of city of London 7 June 1821; common serjeant of city of London 26 April 1822 to Nov. 1830; K.C. Nov. 1828; attorney general 19 Nov. 1830 to 4 Nov. 1832; knighted by Wm. 4 at St. James’s palace 24 Nov. 1830; lord chief justice of King’s Bench 4 Nov. 1832 to 28 Feb. 1850; P.C. 9 Nov. 1832; created Baron Denman of Dovedale, Derbyshire 22 March 1834; the first chief justice of England who sat in House of Lords without his judicial robes. d. Stoke Albany near Rockingham, Northamptonshire 22 Sep. 1854. Arnould’s Memoir of Lord Denman 2 vols. 1873, portrait; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 436–45; J. Whiteside’s Early sketches of eminent persons (1870) 21–45; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 238–46.
DENMAN, Joseph (3 son of the preceding). b. 23 June 1810; entered navy 7 April 1823; captain 23 Aug. 1841; captain of H.M.’s yacht Victoria and Albert 19 Oct. 1853 to 15 Jany. 1862; naval aide-de-camp to the Queen 20 March 1858; R.A. 15 Jany. 1862; commander in chief in the Pacific 10 May 1864 to 21 Nov. 1866; V.A. 20 Nov. 1866; granted Greenwich hospital pension 9 Jany. 1869; contested Manchester 2 May 1859; author of The African squadron and Mr. Hutt’s committee 1850. d. 17 Eaton terrace, London 26 Nov. 1874.
DENNETT, John. b. 1790; invented Dennett’s life-saving rocket apparatus for conveying a rope from the shore to a shipwrecked crew 1832, these rockets were sent to all parts of the world, they were superseded by Boxer’s rocket 1865; custodian of Carisbrook Castle, Newport, Isle of Wight to death; contributed to Journal of British Archeol. Assoc. vols. 1–5 accounts of various antiquities in England. d. Carisbrook Castle 10 July 1852.
DENNIS, Sir James (son of John Dennis, an attorney). b. 1778; midshipman in navy; ensign 49 foot 2 Sep. 1796, major 25 April 1828 to 4 June 1833; lieut. col. 3 foot 4 June 1833 to 11 Nov. 1851; commanded a division of infantry at battle of Maharajpore 29 Dec. 1843; K.C.B. 30 Oct. 1844; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Pall Mall, London 14 Jany. 1855.
DENNIS, Rev. James Blatch Piggot (son of Philip Piggot Dennis). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 28 May 1835 aged 19, B.A. 1839; C. of Maxey, Northants. 1842–54; C. of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds; F.G.S., an authority on fossil bones; his collection of hawks and owls is in Bury St. Edmunds’ museum; author of An answer to the parishioners of Lawshall, telling them why he became a Catholic 1859. d. Garland st. Bury St. Edmunds 12 Jany. 1861. Bury and Norwich Post 15 Jany. 1861 p. 2.
DENNIS, James Samuel Aked. b. 1809; entered navy 24 Oct. 1822; captain 18 July 1857; retired V.A. 2 Aug. 1879. d. rectory cottage, Hanwell 9 Feb. 1881.
DENNISTOUN, Alexander. b. Glasgow 1790; a merchant at Glasgow; M.P. for co. Dunbarton 1835 to 1837. d. Lagarie row, Dennistoun, Glasgow 15 July 1874.
DENNISTOUN, James (eld. son of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, co. Dumbarton, who d. 1 June 1834). b. Dumbartonshire 17 March 1803; ed. at Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow; mem. of faculty of advocates 1824; edited several publications for the Bannatyne and Maitland clubs; contributed many articles chiefly on Art to Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews; published Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino 3 vols. 1851, and Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange, knt., engraver, and of his brother in law Andrew Lumisden, private secretary to the Stuart Princes 2 vols. 1855. d. 119 George st. Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1855. G.M. xliii, 647–8 (1855); Fraser’s Mag. li, 643–4 (1855).
DENNISTOUN, John. b. 1803; M.P. for Glasgow 1837 to 1847. d. Armadale Row, Dumbartonshire 9 Sep. 1870.
DENNY, Henry. Curator of museum of Literary and Philosophical Society, Leeds 1826 to death; author of Monographia Pselaphidarum et Scydmænidarum Britanniæ, or an essay on the British species of the genera Pselaphus of Herbst and Scydmænus of Latreille 1825, er; Monographia Anoplurorum Britanniæ, or an essay on the British species of parasite insects belonging to the order Anoplura of Leach 1842. d. Leeds 7 March 1871 aged 68.