Rev. Sir Henry L. L. Denny

Rev. Sir Henry L. L. Denny, Bt (1878-1953) was born and educated in Ireland. After ordination, he served in parishes in Ireland and then the south of England.  He was an army chaplain in the first and second World Wars. He was vice-chairman of the Church Emigration Society and a member of the Council of Empire Settlement, taking an active part in emigration work between 1920 and 1936. He was a genealogist and an expert on Anglo-Irish genealogy and the editor of The Genealogical Magazine 1925-1931. He wrote extensively on genealogical and antiquarian subjects.