Richard Denys (c. 1525 – 1593/94), of

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, was an English politician.

Family

Denys was the eldest son of Sir Walter Denys, who was well known in local public affairs, by his first wife. His inheritance did not match his family's social standing. Denys married, by 1557, Anne St John, a daughter of the MP Sir John St. John of

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. Together they had four sons and six daughters.

Career

He was a

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(MP) of the

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for Bath in 1547 and for

in 1563. When Denys was elected in 1547, so was his uncle,

Maurice Denys Sir Maurice Denys (1516–1563) of Siston Court, near Bristol, Gloucestershire, and of St John's Street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, was an English lawyer and property speculator during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, at which time he se ...

. His brothers-in-law, Oliver St. John and Francis Russell, joined them.

References

1525 births 1590s deaths People from South Gloucestershire District English MPs 1547–1552 English MPs 1563–1567 {{1563-England-MP-stub