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.
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 edit
- The lineage of the Bromley Davenports
- Bromley Davenport Muniments. The National Archives. John Rylands Library, Manchester University.
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