Bromley-Davenport
Davenport family arms
The Davenport family is first recorded in pipe rolls dating before 1254. Roger de Davenport, Lord of Davenport held the hereditary office of Master Serjeant of the Peace for Macclesfield, Cheshire, England in the 1250s. Their residence was at Woodford and then at Capesthorne Hall, Macclesfield, which they still own. The Rev. Walter Davenport, sometime of Baginton, Vicar of Ellaston, Staffs, and of Capesthorne, assumed the additional surname of Bromley after that of Davenport by Royal Licence, 10 Sept 1822.
Bromley-Davenport is the name of
- Arthur Bromley-Davenport (1867–1946), also known as A. Bromley Davenport, actor
- Harry Bromley Davenport (born 1950), filmmaker
- Hugh Bromley-Davenport (1870–1954), cricketer
- Nicholas Walter Bromley-Davenport (born 1964), High Sheriff of Cheshire 2007–08
- Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport (1903–1989), politician
- William Bromley-Davenport, several individuals
External links
- The lineage of the Bromley Davenports
- Bromley Davenport Muniments. The National Archives. John Rylands Library, Manchester University.
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