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Authorised form of nameDanvers; Sir; Joseph (c 1697 - 1753)
Datesc 1697 - 1753
NationalityBritish
Date of death21 or 26 October 1753
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Swithland, Leicestershire
ActivityEducation:
Lincoln's Inn (admitted 1709)
Career:
Sheriff of Leicestershire (1721); MP for Boroughbridge (1722-1727); MP for Bramber (1727-1734); MP for Totnes (1734-1747); Member of the Court of the Royal Africa Company (1731-1732)
Honours:
Bt 1746
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/11/1724
RelationshipsSon of Samuel Danvers of Swithland and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Morewood, Merchant, of London and Overton, Derbyshire; married Frances, daughter of Thomas Babington of Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, and his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Henry Hall of Gretford, Lincolnshire
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; GEC Baronetage; LI; Sedgwick
Notes:
Burke gives birth date as 21 October 1753. Proposed by Martin Folkes
CodeNA7729
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