Rev. Thomas Denton

Thomas Denton was born at Sebergham, Cumberland. At Sebergham School he studied under Josiah Relph before attending Queens College Oxford (B.A. 1745, M.A. 1752). Afterwards Denton was he was rector of Ashtead, Surrey (1754-77). He edited Josiah Relph's posthumous poems, including the Cumberland Pastorals. Denton's two Spenserian poems, Immortality, and The House of Superstition were often reprinted.

TEXT RECORDS:

1754Immortality: or, the Consolation of Human life. A Monody.
1762The House of Superstition. A Poem.

PUBLICATIONS:

Immortality: or the consolation of human life. A monody. 1754.
The house of superstition: a poem. 1762.
Religious retirement for one day in every month. 1768.
Sermons. 1775.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

Sebergham School
Queen's College Oxford
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts

clergyman
poet

Rev. Josiah Relph
Rev. William Thompson

REFERENCE:

DNB; not NCBEL.

Robert Dodsley, Collection of Poems (1748-58); Pearch, Supplement to Dodsley's Collection (1768-83); Bell's Fugitive Poets (1789-97); W. Hutchinson, History of the County of Cumberland (1794) 2:419; Robert Southey, Specimens of Later English Poets (1807); Alexander Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17); Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1882) 1:494; Foster, Alumni Oxon (1887-91); Fairchild, in Religious Trends in English Poetry (1942); Michael F. Suarez, ed., Dodsley, Collection of Poems (1997) 1:141.

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Rev. Thomas Denton:

1.	1740 ca.  Josiah Relph, "To — D—n, Esq." 1740 ca.; Relph, Miscellany of Poems (1747) 74.
2.	1780  William Cockin, in Ode to the Genius of the Lakes (1780) 28.
3.	1807  Robert Southey, in Specimens of the Later English Poets (1807) 3:126.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Rev. Thomas Denton:

1.	1782  Isaac Reed, in Dodsley, Collection of Poems (1782) 5:243n.
2.	1812  Alexander Chalmers, in General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17) 11:474-75.