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Name
  
John Denny

Role
  
Businessman

Died
  
December 9, 1922


John McAusland Denny

Colonel John McAusland Denny CB DL VD MP (29 November 1858 – 9 December 1922) was a Scottish businessman and Conservative Party politician.

Denny was born in Helenslee, Dumbarton, one of eight sons of Dr. Peter Denny. His grandfather William Denny founded the family shipbuilding firm. He was educated at Dumbarton Academy and in Lausanne and became a shipbuilder and a director of the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway company.

He was elected at the 1895 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilmarnock Burghs. and re-elected in 1900, holding the seat until standing down at the 1906 general election.

During the First World War, he was chairman of the Dumbartonshire Territorial Force Association, and became an honorary colonel in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which he was largely responsible for raising. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1917 New Year Honours.

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