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Greenville (Granville or Grenville), Denis, D.D.

an English clergyman, was born in Cornwall, and admitted commioier of Exeter College, September, 22, 1657. The rectories of Easington and Elwick, in the palatine of Durham, were conferred upon him. He was installed dean of Durham in 1684, and deprived of his preferments in 1690, on account of his refusal to acknowledge William and Mary. He died at Paris in 1703, leaving several theological works, sermons, etc. (1684-89). See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.