Born: Oc­to­ber 2, 1796, Tra­lee Cas­tle, Coun­ty Ker­ry, Ire­land.

Died: June 13, 1889, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Buried: Pad­ding­ton Cem­e­te­ry.

Edward Denny, son of E. Denny, fourth bar­onet, of Tra­lee Cas­tle, Coun­ty Ker­ry, suc­ceeded his fa­ther as bar­o­net in Au­gust 1831:

Nearly the whole town of Tra­lee be­longed to him. He had an op­por­tun­i­ty twen­ty years ago, when his leas­es fell in, of rais­ing his rents to fig­ures that, in some cas­es, would not have been con­sid­ered ex­tor­tion­ate had they been quad­ru­pled. He, how­ev­er, de­cid­ed to ac­cept the old rents. The re­sult was that he was al­most alone in es­cap­ing any re­duct­ion in the hands of the Land Com­miss­ion. So far as he was him­self con­cerned, a lit­tle mon­ey went a long way, but he gave lib­er­al­ly to poor re­la­tions and to the de­vel­op­ment of re­li­gious work in con­nect­ion with the “Breth­ren.” Liv­ing in a qui­et way in a cot­tage in Is­ling­ton, he de­vot­ed his time to the stu­dy of the pro­phet­ic books. His rent­al in­come from Ire­land was about £13,000 a year.

Leeds Mercury, June 19, 1889

Denny belonged to the Ply­mouth Breth­ren, and con­trib­ut­ed much to their hymn­o­dy. His works in­clude:

Sources

Hymns

  1. Break Forth, O Earth, in Prais­es
  2. Bride of the Lamb, Awake, Awake
  3. Bride of the Lamb, Rejoice, Rejoice
  4. Bright with All His Crowns of Glory
  5. Children of God, in All Your Need
  6. Children of Light, Arise and Shine
  7. Children of Light, Awake, Awake
  8. Dear Lord, Amid the Throng That Pressed
  9. Hark to the Trump! Behold It Breaks
  10. Hope of Our Hearts, O Lord, Appear
  11. Isles of the Deep, Rejoice, Rejoice
  12. Joy to the Ransomed Earth
  13. Light of the Lonely Pilgrim’s Heart
  14. Lo, ’tis the Heavenly Army
  15. O Blessed Lord, Thy Feeble Sheep
  16. O Grace Divine! The Savior Shed
  17. O Lord the Bright and Blessed Hope
  18. O What a Bright and Blessed World
  19. O Wondrous Hour! When Jesus Thou
  20. Pilgrim Through This Lonely World, A
  21. Savior, in Love Divine
  22. Sweet Feast of Love Divine
  23. Sweet Was the Hour, O Lord, to Thee
  24. Thou Vain, Deceitful World
  25. Through Israel’s Land the Lord of All
  26. ’Tis Finished All—Our Souls to Win
  27. ’Tis He, the Mighty Savior Comes
  28. ’Tis Night, but O the Joyful Morn
  29. ’Tis Past, the Dark and Dreary Night
  30. To Calvary, Lord, in Spirit Now
  31. What Grace, O Lord, and Beauty Shone
  32. Where, in this Waste Unlovely
  33. While in Sweet Communion Feeding