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I have seen a lot of erroneous information on the web about the father of Rev. Richard Denton being a "Sir Richard Denton." I think this highly unlikely. Richard Denton went to Cambridge on a sizarship.
"A sizar was of a lower class of students at Cambridge University, who, being persons of limited means, were received for lower fees, and obtained free commons, lodgings and other assistance towards their education during their terms of residence. The name "sizar" was connected with the sizes or sizings (size being a shortened form of assize), that was the specified portions of food and drink issued at a fixed price from the buttery of the college; the sizar was so styled because as one of his duties he had to fetch the sizes for others, and because he obtained his own free."
In other words, a Sizar waited on the upperclassmen who were either of noble birth or had the means to pay for their own education, (i.e. son of a wealthy banker or merchant) in order to earn his way through college.
Ergo, our Yorkshire Dentons most probably did not have a lot of money, nor were they noble.
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