Edmund Denison, the son of Lord Grimthorpe was born at Carlton Hall, near Newark in 1816. After being educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a lawyer.
In 1845 Denison was appointed parliamentary counsel for the Great Northern Railway (GNR). Denison’s family were closely associated with the GNR. He father, Lord Grimthorpe, was chairman (1847-64), and his brothers, Christopher and William, were both directors of the company.
William S. Denison was born in Colerain, Massachusetts on November 13, 1794. He moved to Ohio in 1810 and settled in Muskingum county.
He first lived in Putnam, and then moved to Zanesville. Over the years, he became a successful farmer and accumulated nearly 1,500 acres of farmland. In 1853, he agreed to donate $10,000 to Granville College. Because of a longstanding provision that allowed generous donors to rename the college, Granville University was renamed Denison University.
Frederick Denison Maurice was born in Normanstone near Lowestoft on 29th August, 1805. His father, Michael Maurice, worked with Joseph Priestley, as a Unitarian minister in Hackney in London.
Frederick was educated by his father and was introduced to books such as The History of the Puritans at an early age.
Michael Maurice also took his son to meetings of the Anti-Slavery Society and the Bible Society. Encouraged by his father, Frederick idolized social reformers such as Sir Francis Burdett, Henry Brougham and Joseph Hume.
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John Michael Terence Wellesley Denison was born in Yorkshire and educated at Harrow public school and Oxford. From Oxford he too enrolled at Webber-Douglas which is where he met his future wife.
They married shortly after leaving drama school in Spring 1939, though not before Dulcie had changed changed her stage name to Gray. Their careers got off to a healthy start but the war quickly intervened. He joined the Royal Signals and then the intelligence service. He had a quiet war for the most part, though he did get caught up in the chaos in Greece following its liberation.