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:

• A Selection of Hymns (Lon­don: Central Tract Depot, 1839)
• Hymns and Po­ems (Lon­don: 1848, third edition 1870)

Sources

Lyrics

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!
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. O Zi­on, When Thy Savior Came
21. Pilgrim Through This Lone­ly World, A
22. Savior, in Love Divine
23. Sweet Feast of Love Di­vine
24. Sweet Was the Hour, O Lord, to Thee
25. Thou Vain, De­ceit­ful World
26. Through Is­rael’s Land the Lord of All
27. ’Tis Finished All—Our Souls to Win
28. ’Tis He, the Mighty Savior Comes
29. ’Tis Night—But O the Joy­ful Morn
30. ’Tis Past, the Dark and Dreary Night
31. To Calvary, Lord, in Spirit Now
32. What Grace, O Lord, and Beau­ty Shone
33. Where, in this Waste Unlovely
34. While in Sweet Communion Feeding