Alexander Denton (died 1576)

Alexander Denton (1542-8 January 1576) of Hillesden in Buckinghamshire was a landowner and member of the Buckinghamshire gentry.

He is best known for his two monuments, one in Hereford Cathedral the other in Hillesden Church.

He was the only child and heir of Thomas Denton (1515-1558) of Hillesden, several times a Member of Parliament, by his wife Margaret Mordaunt, a daughter of John Mordaunt, 1st Baron Mordaunt, of Turvey, Bedfordshire, and widow of Edmund Fettiplace (d.1540) of Besselsleigh, Berkshire.

[1] He married twice: He died on 8 January 1576 and was buried in Hillesden Church, where survives his monument, inscribed:

Monument in Hereford Cathedral with recumbent effigies of Alexander Denton and his first wife Anne Willison, and her baby dressed in swaddling clothes
Arms of Denton of Hillesden: Argent, two bars gules in chief three cinquefoils of the second
Mary Martin as a 15-year-old girl in 1573, portrait by George Gower
Monument in Hillesden Church to Alexander Denton and his second wife Mary Martin