Edward Denny, son of E. Den­ny, fourth bar­onet, of Tra­lee Cas­tle, Coun­ty Ker­ry, suc­ceeded his fa­ther as bar­o­net in Au­gust 1831:

Nearly the whole town of Tra­lee be­longed to him. He had an op­por­tun­i­ty twen­ty years ago, when his leas­es fell in, of rais­ing his rents to fig­ures that, in some cas­es, would not have been con­sid­ered ex­tor­tion­ate had they been quad­ru­pled. He, how­ev­er, de­cid­ed to ac­cept the old rents. The re­sult was that he was al­most alone in es­cap­ing any re­duct­ion in the hands of the Land Com­miss­ion. So far as he was him­self con­cerned, a lit­tle mon­ey went a long way, but he gave lib­er­al­ly to poor re­la­tions and to the de­vel­op­ment of re­li­gious work in con­nect­ion with the Breth­ren. Liv­ing in a qui­et way in a cot­tage in Is­ling­ton, he de­vot­ed his time to the stu­dy of the pro­phet­ic books. His rent­al in­come from Ire­land was about £13,000 a year.

Leeds Mercury, June 19, 1889

Denny be­longed to the Ply­mouth Breth­ren, and con­trib­ut­ed much to their hym­no­dy. His works in­clude:

• A Se­lect­ion of Hymns (Lon­don: Cen­tral Tract De­pot, 1839)
• Hymns and Po­ems (Lon­don: 1848, third edi­tion 1870)

• Julian, pp. 287-88, 1559
• Nutter, pp. 70, 404

1. Break Forth, O Earth, in Prais­es
2. Bride of the Lamb, Awake, Awake
3. Bride of the Lamb, Re­joice, Re­joice
4. Bright with All His Crowns of Glo­ry
5. Children of God, in All Your Need
6. Children of Light, Arise and Shine
7. Children of Light, Awake, Awake
8. Dear Lord, Amid the Throng That Pressed
9. Hark to the Trump! Be­hold It Breaks
10. Hope of Our Hearts, O Lord, Ap­pear
11. Isles of the Deep, Re­joice!
12. Joy to the Ran­somed Earth
13. Light of the Lone­ly Pil­grim’s Heart
14. Lo, ’Tis the Hea­ven­ly Ar­my
15. O Bless­ed Lord, Thy Fee­ble Sheep
16. O Grace Di­vine! The Sav­ior Shed
17. O Lord, the Bright and Bless­ed Hope
18. O What a Bright and Bless­ed World
19. O Won­drous Hour! When Je­sus Thou
20. O Zi­on, When Thy Sav­ior Came
21. Pilgrim Through This Lone­ly World, A
22. Savior, in Love Di­vine
23. Sweet Feast of Love Di­vine
24. Sweet Was the Hour, O Lord, to Thee
25. Thou Vain, De­ceit­ful World
26. Through Is­rael’s Land the Lord of All
27. ’Tis Fin­ished All—Our Souls to Win
28. ’Tis He, the Mighty Sav­ior Comes
29. ’Tis Night—But O the Joy­ful Morn
30. ’Tis Past, the Dark and Drea­ry Night
31. To Cal­va­ry, Lord, in Spir­it Now
32. What Grace, O Lord, and Beau­ty Shone
33. Where, in This Waste Un­love­ly
34. While in Sweet Com­mun­ion Feed­ing