SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Nicholas Dennys of Tiverton Devon proposed 25.4.1783 Jeremiah Batley 2nded James West
Nicholas Dennys, jun of Lyons Inn = 29.5.1747 Elizabeth dau of John Belfield of Lyons Inn / Nicholas bapt 19.9.1752 Richmond Surrey of Nicholas & Eliz / London Chronicle 15.12.1757 yesterday died at his chambers in Lyons Inn, Nicholas Dennys Esq, his will PCC 1758 / Nicholas Dennys = (1778?) Lucy dau of William Lardner (will PCC 1770 surgeon of Wandsworth) she was bapt 24.12.1754 Wandsworth of William & Lucy / Nicholas bapt 21.3.1780 Lucy bapt 24.10.1782 Belfield bapt 31.1.1784 Elizabeth bapt 13.5.1786 (died 3.7.1789) Fanny bapt 15.10.1787 Lardner bapt 3.8.1781 of Nicholas & Lucy Dennys Tiverton, Devon / Tontine 1789 Nicholas Dennys, wife Lucy, children Nicholas 9, Lucy 7, Belfield 6, Fanny 3 / SunFire 1789 Nicholas Dennys, West Exe, Tiverton, merchant / 1791 with Thomas Heathfield had cotton mill built Tiverton / Nicholas Dennys bur 29.5.1840 age 88 Lucy Dennys bur 20.1.1849 age 95 both at East Teignmouth, Devon / Lucy Dennys = Tiverton 1800 Richard Lane / Historical Memoirs of Tiverton by Martin Dunsford 1790 described p 235ff. the petition to Parliament 1782 supported by Dunsford and Dennys and many inhabitants to widen the franchise at Tiverton, where MPs were elected by the Corporation