About Walter Denys
Lived 1510 – 1571 (aged 60–61). Walter Denys was an English politician.
Sir Walter Denys (c. 1501–1571) of Dyrham, Gloucestershire was a Tudor landowner and member of Parliament.
Background Denys was the son of Sir William Denys of Dyrham and Anne, daughter of Maurice Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley. Maurice Denys was his younger brother. In 1533 inherited a considerable estate in Gloucestershire from his father. He was a justice of the peace in Gloucestershire from 1535 and knighted at around the same time.
He was temporarily removed from the bench under Mary I.
He sat for Gloucestershire in the Parliament of 1558 and Cricklade in 1559. He also acquired from Maurice the ancestral manor of Siston and Abson, Gloucestershire.
Family By 1522 he was married to Margaret, the daughter of Sir Richard Weston of Sutton Place, Surrey.
At the time of his death he was living at St Augustine's Green in Bristol and married to a woman called Alice.
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English Member of Parliament
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Walter Denys was born in 1510.
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