Sir Cecil Edward Denny, 6th Baronet (14 December 1850 – 24 August 1928), was an Anglo-Irish baronet born in

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. He moved to

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, Alberta, Canada, and worked as a police officer, Indian agent, and author. The younger son of the Rev. Day Denny, vicar of

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, by his second wife Frances Waller, he was educated at

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and in France and Germany. Denny was a founding member of the

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of which he became inspector. He was later a police magistrate and a commissioner-in-charge to a number of native tribes. In his later career he was keeper of records and archivist for the

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. In 1921 he succeeded his step brother, Sir Robert Denny, to become 6th Baronet of Castle Moyle. He died, unmarried, in 1928 and was buried in Union Cemetery,

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1850 births 1928 deaths People from Hampshire (before 1974) Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland English emigrants to pre-Confederation Canada People educated at Cheltenham College {{Ireland-baronet-stub