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Salisbury, aged 53, the Right Rev. Edward Denison, D.D., Lord Bishop of Salisbury. Edward Denison, the late Bishop of Salisbury was the second son of John Denison, Esq., of Ossington, in the county of Nottingham, and Charlotte Estwick his wife. The eldest son of this marriage is J. Evelyn Denison, Esq., M.P. for Malton.

Edward, the subject of this brief notice, was born on the 13th of May, 1801; and educated with his eldest brother at a preparatory school then in high repute, under the government of Dr. Moore, at Esher, in Surrey. The two brothers were sent to Eton in 1811, and at this famous school four of the younger brothers of the same family, remarkable for their great proficiency in classical scholarship, were subsequently educated.