John Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington Personal Computer was a British statesman.
Background
Denison was born at Ossington, Nottinghamshire, the eldest son of John Denison (d 1820), and the older brother of Edward Denison, bishop of Salisbury, Sir William Denison, colonial governor in Australia and India and George Denison, a conservative churchman.
Education
He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
Career
He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1857 to 1872. Defeated in 1830 both at Newcastle-under-Lyme and then at Liverpool, Denison secured a seat as one of the members for Nottinghamshire in 1831. After the Great Reform Acting he represented the southern division of Nottinghamshire from 1832 until the general election of 1837.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire for 1839-1840.
Denison then represented Malton from 1841 to 1857, and North Nottinghamshire from 1857 to 1872. In April 1857 Denison was chosen Speaker of the House of Commons.
He was sworn of the Privy Council at the same time. Re-elected at the beginning of three successive parliaments he retained this position until February 1872, when he resigned and was raised to the peerage as Viscount Ossington, of Ossington in the County of Nottingham.
He refused, however, to accept the pension usually given to retiring Speakers.
Denison gave an explanation – referred to as Speaker Denison"s rule – as to how the Speaker should exercise his or her casting vote in the event of a tie. While in office, Denison formed the view that the public needed a plain, but complete and accurate, explanatory commentary on the Bible, and consulted some of the bishops as to the best way of supplying the work. Eventually the Archbishop of York undertook to organise the production of the commentary, under the editorship of Frederic Charles Cook, Canon of Exeter.
A panel was appointed to advise the general Editor, comprising the Archbishop and the Regius Professors of Divinity of Oxford and Cambridge.
Formally entitled The Bible Commentary, it became popularly known as "". lieutenant was first published in England, and subsequently in the United States by Charles Scribner"s Sons.
Lord Ossington married Lady Charlotte, daughter of William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, in 1827, but he left no children. He died on 7 March 1873, and his title became extinct.
Ossington Street in London was named in his honour.
Lady Ossington died in 1889.
Membership
7th United Kingdom Parliament. 8th United Kingdom Parliament. 10th United Kingdom Parliament.
11th United Kingdom Parliament.
12th United Kingdom Parliament. 14th United Kingdom Parliament.
15th United Kingdom Parliament. 16th United Kingdom Parliament.
17th United Kingdom Parliament.
18th United Kingdom Parliament. 19th United Kingdom Parliament. 20th United Kingdom Parliament]
A Whig, he became Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1823, being returned for Hastings three years later, and holding for a short time a subordinate position in George Canning"s ministry.