Edward Denny (soldier)

Sir Edward Denny (1547 – 12 February 1600), Knight Banneret, of Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire, was a soldier, privateer and adventurer during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

The same year saw him join a colonizing expedition led by Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Walter Raleigh; however, their ships were forced to turn home due to bad weather.

It has not been established whether it was this Sir Edward Denny or his nephew and namesake who was elected Knight of the Shire for Westmorland in 1593, however it is certain that in 1597 he was returned to Parliament for the "rotten borough" of Tregony in Cornwall.

Situated beside the high altar it depicts Denny lying on his side in a suit of armour, next to his wife; on a separate frieze below are sculpted his ten children, kneeling.

[6] His epitaph reads: ′Learn, curious reader, ere you pass, What Sir Edward Denny was: A courtier in the chamber, A soldier in the field, Whose tongue could never flatter, Whose heart could never yield.′

Monument in Waltham Abbey , Essex, to Sir Edward Denny and his wife Margaret Edgcumbe, with "weepers" depicting their seven sons and three daughters
Arms of Denny: Gules, a saltire argent between twelve crosses pattée or [ 1 ]
Arms of Edgcumbe: Gules, on a bend ermines cotised or three boar's heads couped argent , as seen (inverted) on the monument to Sir Edward Denny in Waltham Abbey