BROMLEY-DAVENPORT

William ( eld. son of Rev. Walter Davenport-Bromley of Wooton hall, Staffs. 1787–1862 ). b. Capes thorn near Crewe 20 Aug. 1821; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; lieut. col. Staff ords hire yeomanry cavalry 13 July 1864 to death; M.P. for North War wicks hire Dec. 1864 to death; a umed name of Bromley-Davenport in lieu of Davenport-Bromley 1868; aide-de-camp to the Queen 15 Aug. 1883 to death; author of many hunting songs and of an article entitled Fox hunting in The Nineteenth Century June 1883 . d. Lich field 15 June 1884. Waagen’s Treasures of art iii , 371–80 (1854); I.L.N. lxxxv , 629 (1884), portrait ; Baily’s Mag. xlii , 385 (1884).