Background
Born at Littlebourne, Kent, on 25 May 1693, he was the eldest son of John Denne, woodreve to the see of Canterbury.
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John Denne
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He was educated at Sandwich grammar school, King"s School, Canterbury, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts 1712, Master of Arts
Career
1716, Doctor of Divinity 1728. He was tutor and fellow of his college. Denne was ordained in 1716, and was presented to the perpetual curacy of Street Benedict"s Church, Cambridge. He became rector of Norton-by-Daventry, Northamptonshire, in 1721, exchanging the living in 1723 for the vicarage of Street Leonard"s, Shoreditch.
While he was vicar Saint Leonard"s was rebuilt.
From 1725 to 1728 he delivered the Boyle lectures. In 1728 he became archdeacon and prebendary of Rochester.
He also held the vicarage of Street Margaret"s Church, Rochester. In 1731 Denne resigned his Rochester parish for the rectory of Saint Mary"s Church, Lambeth.
He was for some time prolocutor of the lower house of convocation.
From about 1759 he suffered from ill-health. He died on 5 August 1767, and was buried in Rochester Cathedral. Denne married in 1724 Susannah, youngest daughter of Samuel Bradford, bishop of Rochester, to whom he was for many years domestic chaplain.
He had three children, John (d 1800), chaplain of Maidstone gaol.
Samuel, the antiquarian. And Susannah.
