The second of the two sons of Archdeacon John Denne, he was born at the deanery, Westminster, on 13 January 1730.
Admitted to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1748, he graduated B.A.
He died unmarried at Wilmington, on 3 August 1799, and was buried near his father in Rochester Cathedral.
[1] Denne published:[1] He contributed to: John Thorpe's edition of Custumale Roffense; Richard Gough's Sepulchral Monuments; the Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica; the Illustrations of the Manners and Expences of Antient Times in England, 1797; and an edition of Francis Atterbury's Correspondence.
He also assisted Henry Ellis in his history of Shoreditch, contributed articles to Archæologia, and wrote in the Gentleman's Magazine as "W. & D." (i.e. Wilmington and Darenth, his vicarages).