Alexander Denton (died 1576)

Origins

Marriages

• Firstly to Anne Willison, who died aged 18, a daughter of Richard Willison of Sugwas near Hereford, by his wife Anne Elton of Ledbury, whose joint monument with recumbent effigies survives, mutilated, in Madley Church. Arms of Willison: A chevron between three lions rampant, as visible on the Madley Church monument and on the Denton monument in Hereford Cathedral. Anne compiled a prose miscellany, which survives in the Folger Shakespeare Library as "MS E.a.1". The marriage was without surviving issue, but produced one infant child, probably a girl named Janne. Anne was buried in Hereford Cathedral, where survives her elaborate monument displaying recumbent effigies of herself with an infant child wrapped in swaddling clothes and of her husband. Fisher wrote as follows:

• Secondly he married Mary Martin a 15-year-old daughter and co-heiress of Sir Roger Martyn, Lord Mayor of London in 1567. Her portrait by George Gower to commemorate her marriage survives in the York Art Gallery. She died in 1574 and was buried in Hillesden Church, where survives a monument to herself and her husband. By Mary he had issue including:
• *Sir Thomas Denton, son and heir, a Member of Parliament for Buckingham and Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, ancestor of several Members of Parliament and of the Denton baronets, extinct in 1714.

  Death