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Family and Education
bap. 21 Mar. 1596, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Denton† of Hillesden and Susan, da. of John Temple of Stow, Bucks.Vis. Bucks. 1634 (Harl. Soc. lviii), 38; Lipscombe, Bucks. iii. 17. educ. Christ Church, Oxf. 30 Oct. 1612.Al. Ox. m. 2 Sept. 1617, Mary (bur. 6 Apr. 1641), da. of Edmund Hampden of Hartwell and Wendover, Bucks. 5s. (1 d.v.p.), 7da. (1 d.v.p.).Hartwell par. reg.; Bucks. RO, PR 52/5/1; Hillesden par. reg.; Vis. Bucks. 1634, 38; Lipscombe, Bucks. ii. 302, iii. 17. suc. fa. 1633; Kntd. 16 Sept. 1617.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 166. d. 1 Jan. 1645.CJ iii. 6b; Mems. of the Verney Family, ii. 204.
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Local: capt. militia horse, Bucks. bef. 1629.Eg. 860, f. 152. Commr. charitable uses, 1629–30.C93/12/6. J.p. Oxon. 3 July 1629-aft. 1640; Buckingham 1630 – aft.38; Bucks. by 1636-aft. 1642.Coventry Docquets, 63; C181/4, ff. 68, 151v; C181/5, f. 120v; Ship Money Pprs. ed. C.G. Bonsey and J.G. Jenkins (Bucks. Rec. Soc. xiii), 98, 99. Sheriff, 1637–8.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 9. Dep. lt. by 1640–?Bodl. Bankes 44/13, f. 27; CSP Dom. 1640–1, p. 57. Commr. oyer and terminer, 12 May-aft. June 1640;C181/5, ff. 169v, 176v. gaol delivery, 12 May 1640;C181/5, f. 169v. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. disarming recusants, 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385a. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642; assessment, 1642.SR. Member, Bucks. standing cttee. June 1642.Lord Nugent, Some Mems. of John Hampden (1832), ii. 458. Commr. array (roy.), 4 July 1642;Northants. RO, FH133, unfol. levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643;A. and O. rebels’ estates (roy.), Berks., Bucks. and Oxon. 9 Feb. 1644–19 Nov. 1645.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 143, 276.

Parlimentarian
DENTON, Sir Alexander (1596-1645), of Hillesden, Bucks.
: Bucks.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown, 1630.Verney family.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

DENTON, Sir Alexander (1596-1645), of Hillesden, Bucks.

Will
not found.
Estates
he and Sir Charles Morrison† bought land in Barnewood Forest, Bucks. for £4,639 9s 6d in 1627; he and others bought land at King’s Sutton, Northants. 1631; he and others sold manor of Pichley, Northants. 1632; Arthur Goodwin* sold manors of Bishops Woburn and Woburn Dincourt, Bucks. to Denton and John Hampden*, 1635; sold manor of Hillesden, Bucks. 1637; sold land at Cuddeston, Oxon. 1637;Coventry Docquets, 247, 611, 623, 684, 704, 705. estates valued at £2,750 p.a. by Committee for Compounding, 1647.CCC 67.
Oxford 1644
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