William Denton
1815–88
Clergyman and campaigner. BA, Oxford, 1844. Ordained priest, 1845. Vicar of St Bartholomew, Little Moorfields, Cripplegate, 1850–88. Campaigned for better housing and working conditions for the working class, and campaigned on behalf of Balkan Christians. His The Christians in Turkey, first published in 1863, alleging a conspiracy of silence among British diplomats over the Ottoman government’s treatment of Christian communities, was enlarged and reissued in 1876 and 1877, and he took part in the National Convention on the Eastern Question in December 1876.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
