[1] Edward Denison received his early education at Esher, and in 1811 entered Eton College.

[1] He acquired some reputation while filling the office of select preacher before the university in 1834, but in 1835 strongly opposed the admission of dissenters to the colleges of Oxford.

He immediately increased the number of Sunday services in the parish churches, and reformed the mode of conducting confirmations.

When cholera broke out in Salisbury the bishop worked both as a religious teacher and as a sanitary reformer.

[1] He was a well-known advocate of the revival of the church's synodical powers, and in convocation displayed considerable resolution in furthering the movement.