DENTON, Alexander II (1679-1740), of the Middle Temple

Family and Education

b. 14 Aug. 1679, 2nd s. of Alexander Denton I*; bro. of Edmund Denton*. educ. Buckingham 1694; St. Edmund Hall, Oxf. 1697; Middle Temple 1698, called 1704, bencher 1720. m. 3 Mar. 1716, (with £20,000) Catherine (d. 1733), da. and h. of John Bond of Sundridge, Kent, s.p. suc. bro. at Hillesden 1714. Lipscomb, Bucks. iii. 17–18; B. Willis, Buckingham, 196, 203; BL, Verney mss mic. 636/47, Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Bt.† to John Verney* (Ld. Fermanagh), 25 Aug. 1694; Pol. State, xlv. 633; Foss, Judges, viii. 120; Recs. of Bucks. xi. 21.

Offices Held

Freeman, Chipping Wycombe 1704, Woodstock 1712; recorder, Buckingham 1708–22; asst. Banbury 1718. Ledger Bk. of Chipping Wycombe ed. Newall, 63; Verney mss mic. 636/55, Fermanagh to Ralph Verney†, 6 Aug. 1713; A. Beesley, Hist. Banbury, 516.

Sec. to Ld. Wharton (Hon. Thomas*) as c.j. in eyre, s. of Trent 1706, as ld. lt. [I] 1708–10; paymaster of ordnance [I] 1709–10; attorney-gen. duchy of Lancaster 1714–22; KC 1715; j.c.p. 1722–d.; chancellor to Prince of Wales 1729–d. Luttrell, Brief Relation, vi. 75, 386; Swift Works ed. Davis, iii. 233; Somerville, Duchy of Lancaster Official Lists, 22.

MP [I] 1709–13.

Parlimentarian

DENTON, Alexander (1679-1740), of Hillesden, nr. Buckingham, Bucks.

Main residence: the Middle Temple.

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Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

DENTON, Alexander II (1679-1740)

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Oxford 1644

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