Samuel Denne (1730–1799) was an English cleric and antiquarian.

Life

The second of the two sons of Archdeacon

John Denne John Denne D.D. (1693–1767) was an English churchman and antiquarian, Archdeacon of Rochester from 1728. Life Born at Littlebourne, Kent, on 25 May 1693, he was the eldest son of John Denne, woodreeve to the see of Canterbury. He was educate ...

, he was born at the deanery, Westminster, on 13 January 1730. He was educated at Streatham and

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. Admitted to

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, 1748, he graduated B.A. 1753, and M.A. 1756. In 1754 he was presented to the vicarage of

Lamberhurst Lamberhurst ( is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. The parish contains the hamlets of The Down and Hook Green. At the 2001 Census it had a population of 1,491, increasing to 1,706 at the 2011 Census. ...

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, but he resigned it in 1767 on becoming vicar of Wilmington and also of

Darenth Darenth is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Dartford, Kent, England. It is located 3.4 miles south east of Dartford and 4.6 miles north east of Swanley. History The parish was part of Axstane Hundred and later Dartford Rural D ...

, both near

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, Kent. Denne became a fellow of the

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in 1783. He died unmarried at Wilmington, on 3 August 1799, and was buried near his father in

Rochester Cathedral Rochester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an English church of Norman architecture in Rochester, Kent. The church is the cathedral of the Diocese of Rochester in the Church of England and the s ...

Works

Denne published: * ''A Letter to Sir R. Ladbroke'' (advocacy of a

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), 1771. His brother John was chaplain at

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, and was shot by escaping prisoners. * ''Historical Particulars of Lambeth Parish and Lambeth Palace'', 1795. * ''The History and Antiquities of Rochester and its Environs'', with

William Shrubsole William Shrubsole (1760–1806) was an English musician and composer. Life The youngest son of Thomas Shrubsole, a farrier, he was born at Canterbury, and baptised on 13 January 1760. He was a chorister in Canterbury Cathedral from 1770 to 17 ...

, 1772; also 1817 and 1833. He contributed to:

John Thorpe John Thorpe or Thorp (c.1565–1655?; fl.1570–1618) was an English architect. Life Little is known of his life, and his work is dubiously inferred, rather than accurately known, from a folio of drawings in the Sir John Soane's Museum, to whi ...

's edition of ''Custumale Roffense'';

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's ''Sepulchral Monuments''; the ''Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica''; the ''Illustrations of the Manners and Expences of Antient Times in England'', 1797; and an edition of

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's ''Correspondence''. He also assisted

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in his history of

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, contributed articles to '' Archæologia'', and wrote in the ''

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'' as "W. & D." (i.e. Wilmington and Darenth, his vicarages). His correspondence with Gough was published in vol. vi. of John Nichols's ''Literary Illustrations''.

Notes

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Denne, Samuel 1730 births 1799 deaths 18th-century English Anglican priests English antiquarians Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London People from Wilmington, Kent People from Lamberhurst