Blind Irish harper who wandered the island before finding a patron in Frederick Augustus Hervey, fourth earl of Bristol. He was memorialized by Lady Morgan.

REFERENCES TO Denis Hempson:

Joseph Cooper Walker to Sydney Owenson, 4 February 1806 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)