Sir Arthur Denny (1629 – 1673) was an

Anglo-Irish Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the establis ...

politician.

Biography

Denny was the son of Sir Edward Denny and Ruth Roper, daughter of

Thomas Roper, 1st Viscount Baltinglass Thomas Roper, 1st Viscount Baltinglass (c.1587 – 18 February 1638) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and peer. Roper served as a distinguished military commander of the English royal army in Ireland during the reign of James I, having fought at a youn ...

. In 1653 he restored the family seat at

Tralee Castle Tralee Castle was a medieval strategic castle in Tralee, Kerry, owned by the Denny family from 1586. It is now a ruin. The castle was built by the Desmond family, likely in the mid-thirteenth century at a similar time to the constriction of ...

after it had been damaged in the

Irish Confederate Wars The Irish Confederate Wars, also called the Eleven Years' War (from ga, Cogadh na hAon-déag mBliana), took place in Ireland between 1641 and 1653. It was the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a series of civil wars in the kin ...

. He was the

High Sheriff of Kerry The High Sheriff of Kerry was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Kerry, Ireland from the 16th century until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replaced by the office of Kerry County Sheriff. The sheri ...

in 1656 and was the

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for

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in the

Irish House of Commons The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive fra ...

from 1661 to 1666. In 1669 he was appointed Vice-Admiral of Munster. He married Ellen Barry, a daughter of

David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore, 19th Baron Barry, 6th Viscount Buttevant (1605–1642) was an Irish peer. Birth and Origins David was born on 10 March 1605 probably at Buttevant, County Cork, a posthumous child of David de Barry and h ...

. He was succeeded in his estates by his son, Edward Denny.Tralee Castle and Abbey
''Kerry Archaeological Magazine'', Vol. 2, No. 11 (October 1913), pp. 141-150.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Denny, Arthur 1629 births 1673 deaths 17th-century Anglo-Irish people High Sheriffs of Kerry Irish MPs 1661–1666 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kerry constituencies People of the Irish Confederate Wars