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George Davenport   Sex: Male
Birth Date 1631 Jan 15 Wigston
Death Date  1677 Jul 06 Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham 
Father John Davenport   Born: 1579 Jan 24 Wigston, Leicestershire, England, United Died: 1654 Jan 07 
Mother Elizabeth Hales  Born: 1588 Died: 1658 
George Davenport
Notes:		 George was an M.A. from Emmanuel College Cambridge (1653). While there he became a friend of William Sancroft a Fellow of the College and himself a friend of John Cosin, a more senior churchman and one time Master of Peterhouse College. After the Restoration Cosin was appointed bishop of Durham and quickly appointed Sancroft and George to be chaplains to him, Sancroft in addition having the incumbency of a local parish, Houghton-le-Spring. Cosin had brought back a large collection of books from his exile in Paris during the Commonwealth and George took on the task of building a diocesan library based on them.  
Notes: Sancroft became increasingly busy outside the diocese (on his way ultimately to becoming the Archbishop of Canterbury) and in 1664 resigned from Houghton-le-Spring; George succeeded him as Rector. George rebuilt the rectory (see engraving of this in Nichols' Leic. iv. 380) adding a chapel, and built and endowed a new wing to the almshouses. He travelled widely and corresponded regularly with Sancroft, who preserved the letters along with those of his other correspondents. The majority of these are now held by The Bodlian Library in Oxford with others in the British Library, and George’s are the subject of an article in Archaeologia Aeliana, third series, volume IX 1913 pp 1 -10. Transcriptions of a number of them were made in Victorian times by a family member, Frank Ringrose (No. 1036); they are contained in two notebooks held by the LRO.  
Notes: George gave a chalice and paten to All Saints Church in Wigston in 1661; the paten is inscribed, "Ecclesiae de Wigston dedit Georgius Davenport Clericus natus ibid," and the chalice bears the Davenport arms. They are still in the possession of the church and were viewed and photographed there by the Davenport reunion lunch participants in March 2007. He also donated some 70 books and manuscripts of his own to the Durham Cathedral Library. 
Notes: He died suddenly at the age of 46. In his will, dated 17 Sep 1676, he left his lands at Bushby and Wigston to his brother John together with his books 15 and his personal papers, and £40 and £20 respectively to the poor of Houghton and Wigston. Additionally, he left personal items to various relatives and named his nephew John (No. 107) as residual legatee and sole executor. In 1850 Henry Devereux Davenport (No. 628) arranged for the repair of the stained glass window over the Davenport family pew in All Saints, Wigston, and dedicated it to the memory of George.  
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John Davenport
b.1579 Wigston, Leicestershire, England, United
d.1654
See Notes		Gentleman
Richard Davenport
b.1543 Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
d.1623
See Notes		 William T Davenport
b.1520 Leicestershire, England
d.1600
   
  Ann Edwards
b.1530 Hartford, Huntingdonshire, England
d.1600
   
 
Alice Winifred Goodale
b.1546 Wigston, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
d.1624
  
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Elizabeth Hales
b.1588
d.1658		 Timothy Hales
b.1560
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Charles Hales of Newnham
b.1495
Stephanus Hales de Newland
b.1555
    Elizabeth Hales
b.1588
d.1658
   
  
 
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