William Bromley-Davenport (1821–1884)

William Bromley-Davenport (20 August 1821 – 15 June 1884), also known as Davenport and Davenport-Bromley, was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1864 to 1884.

[1] On 6 April 1843 he was commissioned as captain of the Cheadle Troop of the part-time Staffordshire Yeomanry, being promoted to major on 8 May 1861 and lieutenant-colonel on 13 July 1863.

[4] He collapsed and died of a heart attack while seeking to quell disturbances in Lichfield caused by members of his Staffordshire Yeomanry.

They were on a training week under his command but indulged in riotous behaviour, including storming the stage in a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida and blackening the face on the statue of Samuel Johnson.

[6] Bromley-Davenport also wrote a book "Sport" documenting his outdoors life, published by Chapman and Hall posthumously in 1885.

"Clever"
Bromley-Davenport as caricatured by Spy ( Leslie Ward ) in Vanity Fair , May 1877
Fishing in Norway with local boatman Ole Fiva (on left) from Romsdal, Norway , where Davenport had his summer house and visited every year to fish salmon and practice mountaineering. Photo from around 1870.