Captain William Evelyn Denison DL, JP (25 February 1843 – 24 September 1916)[1] was a British Army officer and a Conservative Party politician.
He owned an estate in Ossington, Nottinghamshire where he held several local offices as well as sitting in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1880.
[3] In 1854 Sir William was promoted to Governor of New South Wales, and the family moved to Sydney.
[2] In February 1864 he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery,[4] and in September 1876 he was promoted to the rank of captain.
[7] Denison did not stand again in Nottingham at the 1880 general election,[7] having been asked instead[8] to contest the Northern division of Nottinghamshire, where he was unsuccessful.