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.