Thomas Denton (died 1558)

He was elected, consecutively, by six parliamentary constituencies: Wallingford (1536), Oxford (1539), Berkshire (1547), Banbury (April 1554), Buckinghamshire (November 1554) and Oxfordshire (1558).

Details of his admission and graduation were lost, but it known that in 1540 he was summoned to report the affairs of the Inns of Court to King Henry VIII.

[2] Denton, Nicholas Bacon and Robert Cary proposed creation of a new educational college financed with the revenues of former monastic properties, but the king withheld the money and the plan did not take off.

One year later they both failed to show up for a House session and were prosecuted at the King's Bench, with no lasting consequences for Denton.

[2] According to archival records, Denton possessed properties in London, Berkshire, Buckingamshire, Cheshire, Gloucestershire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire.

Monument with effigies of Thomas Denton and his wife in All Saints' Church, Hillesden
Arms of Denton of Hillesden: Argent, two bars gules in chief three cinquefoils of the second