Of Clapham Common, Surrey.

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John Davenport (ca.1719-1789) of The Hall, Clapham Common, North Side,  Surrey. (See Map of Clapham families in C. Smith's "Actual Survey of the Road from London to Brighthelmston" 1800 [reproduced in The London Rich, by Peter Thorold,1999].
Ref. Robert Bevan 1865-1925, A Memoir by His Son - "An ancestor on his mother's side, John Davenport, wrote an amusing Hints for Bad Horsemen, published in 1786 under the pseudonym Charles Thompson."
A letter from R[ichard?] Davenport to his mother from Eton (21st March 1779) was addressed to 432 Strand. In 1794 that address was occupied by Gilpin & Newton, Woollen Drapers and by Davenport & Gilpin, Army Clothiers.
Musgrave's Obituaries prior to 1800 records John Davenport, Clothier 16 July 1789 aged 70.
He was mentioned in Jonathan Eade's will of 1762.  I [PB] have a copy of his will from the PRO - Prob 11/1181. Left his three unmarried children £10,000 each.”
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From the Lambeth Archives Department:
“ John [Davenport], a wealthy merchant (he was Master of the Merchant Taylors' Company in 1775) and woollen draper to the King had bought a large estate on Clapham Common Northside, near the present Sugden Road. ”

Record of her will in the Public Trust Office.