Sir Edmund Denton, 1st Baronet (25 October 1676 – 4 May 1714), of

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, Buckinghamshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the

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and British House of Commons from 1698 to 1713. Denton was baptized on 25 October 1676, the eldest son of Alexander Denton (1654–1698), M.P. for Buckingham, 1690–1698, and his wife, Esther (or Hester) Herman, daughter of Nicholas Herman of Middleton Stony. He was a member of a Cumberland family which had been granted the manor of Hillesdon by King Edward IV.John Burke, Esq. & John Bernard Burke, Esq. ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England''
Accessed 30 January 2023. He matriculated at

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in 1695, and was admitted at

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in 1697. He succeeded his father in 1698. Denton was returned as

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for Buckingham at the 1698 English general election. On 12 May 1699, he was created a

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, of Hillesdon in the County of Buckingham. He continued to represent Buckingham until the

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, when he was returned as MP for Buckinghamshire, a seat he held until 1713. Denton married, with a

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of £10,000, Mary Rowe, daughter and co-heiress of Anthony Rowe, of Hackney,

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. The marriage was childless. He died on 4 May 1714, aged 37, when the baronetcy became extinct. Lady Denton married as her second husband

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and died in 1742. Denton was the elder brother of Alexander Denton.

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