Biography

Edmund Beckett [Denison] (1816-1905), 1st Baron Grimthorpe, ecclesiastical controversialist, architect and horologist, was born at Carlton Hall, near Newark, on 12 May 1816. Beckett Denison was educated at Doncaster grammar school, Eton College, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1834 and graduated BA in 1838 (MA 1841, LLD 1863). He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1841, became a QC in 1854, a bencher of his inn in the same year, and its treasurer in 1876. He was appointed chancellor and vicar-general of the province of York in 1877, an office which he held until 1900. He died at Batch Wood, St Albans, on 29 April 1905.

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