Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index John Evelyn Denison (27 January 1800 - 7 March 1873), Speaker of the British House of Commons 1857-72, was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. A Whig, he was MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme 1823-26, for Hastings 1826-30, for Nottinghamshire 1831-37, for Malton 1841-57 and for Nottingham South 1857-72, when he was created Viscount Ossington. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.