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Davers baronets. The Davers Baronetcy, of Rougham in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 12 May 1682 for Robert Davers, who had made a great fortune in Barbados as a plantation owner before acquiring the Rougham estate in Suffolk. [1]
- Sir Robert Davers, 5th Baronet
Sir Robert Davers, 5th Baronet (1729 – 6 May 1763) was a...
- Danvers baronets
Danvers baronets. Monument in St Mary the Virgin parish...
- Sir Robert Davers, 2nd Baronet
1 October 1722. Rushbrooke Hall, Suffolk, England. Father....
- Sir Robert Davers, 5th Baronet
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Davers was the second surviving son of Sir Jermyn Davers, 4th Baronet, MP and Margaretta Green. He was brought up at Rushbrooke Hall in Suffolk and educated at King Edward VI School (Bury St Edmunds) and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1755. He then undertook the Grand Tour. Davers became an officer in the British Army in 1758, be...
In 1763 Davers inherited his brother's baronetcy and estates. In the 1768 general election he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Weymouth. At the 1774 general election he was returned as MP for Bury St Edmunds. Davers held his seat in the House of Commons due to his close personal alliance with Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton. Grafto...
Davers lived at Rushbrooke Hall with Frances Treice, by whom he had five illegitimate sons and three illegitimate daughters.He was rumoured to have earlier married Miss Coutts, a planter's daughter, in America while serving in the army, and to have had a son, Rushbrook. On his death in 1806 he was buried at St Nicholas Church, Rushbrooke. He left h...
Sir Jermyn Davers, 4th Baronet (c.1686 – 20 February 1743), of Rougham and Rushbrooke, Suffolk, was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1743.
The Davers Baronetcy, of Rougham in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 12 May 1682 for Robert Davers, who had made a great fortune in Barbados before acquiring the Rougham estate in Suffolk. The second and fourth Baronets represented Bury St Edmunds and Suffolk in Parliament.
