Yorkshire, Harewood
" To the memory of Sir Thomas Denison, Knight. This monument was erected by his afflicted widow. He was an affectionate husband, a generous relation, a sincere friend, a good citizen, an honest man. Skilled in all the learning of the common law, he raised himself to great eminence in his profession, and showed by his practice that a thorough knowledge of legal art is not litigious, or an instrument of chicane, but the plainest, easiest, and shortest way to the end of strife. For the sake of the public he was pressed, and at List prevailed upon, to accept the office of a judge in the Court of King's Bench. He discharged the important trust of that high office with unsuspected integrity and uncommon ability. The clearness of his understanding, and the natural probity of his heart, led him immediately to truth, ecpiity, and justice."
"The precision and extent of his legal knowledge enabled him always to find the right way of
doing what was right; a zealous friend to the constitution of liis country, he steadily adhered to the fundamental principle upon which it is built, and by which alone it can be maintained, — a religious application of the inflexible rule of law all questions concerning the power of the Crown and privileges of the subject. He resigned his office February 14th, 1765 because, from the decay of his health and loss of his sight, he found himself unable any longer to execute it. He died September 8th, 1765, without issue, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. He wished to be buried in his native county, and in this church. He lies here near the Lord Chief-Justice Gascoigne, who, by a resolute and judicious exertion of authority, supported law and government in a manner which has perpetuated his name, and made him an example famous to posterity."
Yorkshire, Harewood
" To the memory of Sir Thomas Denison, Knight. This monument was erected by his afflicted widow. He was an affectionate husband, a generous relation, a sincere friend, a good citizen, an honest man. Skilled in all the learning of the common law, he raised himself to great eminence in his profession, and showed by his practice that a thorough knowledge of legal art is not litigious, or an instrument of chicane, but the plainest, easiest, and shortest way to the end of strife. For the sake of the public he was pressed, and at List prevailed upon, to accept the office of a judge in the Court of King's Bench. He discharged the important trust of that high office with unsuspected integrity and uncommon ability. The clearness of his understanding, and the natural probity of his heart, led him immediately to truth, ecpiity, and justice."
"The precision and extent of his legal knowledge enabled him always to find the right way of
doing what was right; a zealous friend to the constitution of liis country, he steadily adhered to the fundamental principle upon which it is built, and by which alone it can be maintained, — a religious application of the inflexible rule of law all questions concerning the power of the Crown and privileges of the subject. He resigned his office February 14th, 1765 because, from the decay of his health and loss of his sight, he found himself unable any longer to execute it. He died September 8th, 1765, without issue, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. He wished to be buried in his native county, and in this church. He lies here near the Lord Chief-Justice Gascoigne, who, by a resolute and judicious exertion of authority, supported law and government in a manner which has perpetuated his name, and made him an example famous to posterity."