Sir Edmund Denton, 1st Baronet ( 1676 – 4 May 1714), of Hillesden, Buckinghamshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1698 to 1713. Denton was baptized on 25 October 1676, the eldest son of (M.P. for Buckingham 1690–1698) and his wife Esther or Hester Herman, daughter of Nicholas Herman of Middleton Stony. He was a member of a Cumberland family which had been granted the manor of Hillesdon by King Edward IV. He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford in 1695 and was admitted at Middle Temple in 1697. He succeeded his father in 1698.