He was educated at Harrow and at Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1860 at the Inner Temple.
[3] He first stood for Parliament at the 1874 general election in Newcastle-under-Lyme,[4] and was unsuccessful again at a by-election in Stoke-upon-Trent in February 1875.
Davenport stood in the new Leek division at the 1885 general election, where he was narrowly beaten by the Liberal Party candidate Charles Crompton.
[8] Davenport was married in 1868 to Georgiana Henrietta, the eldest daughter of Sir William Curtis, 3rd Baronet,[2] a former High Sheriff of Shropshire.
[12] He died on 19 March 1895,[1] and his estate was bequeathed to his nephew Ralph Tichborne Davenport.