Sir Jermyn Davers

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1743

Biography

MP for Bury St Edmunds 1722-1727 and then for Suffolk 1727-1743. Son and heir of Sir Robert Davers 2nd bart. Together with his brother Thomas Davers he sold two estates (and the enslaved people attached to them) on Barbados to the Frere family c. 1730. He had inherited the English property of his great-uncle the 1st Lord Dover in 1726.

Sources

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/davers-sir-jermyn-1686-1743; http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/davers-sir-robert-1653-1722.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Associated Estates (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

- 1730 [EY] → Joint owner

Lower Estate [ Barbados | St George ]

In 1654, William Byam, previously of Barbados but who had moved to Surinam, sold 80 acres in St George and a further 10 in the possession of Ann Peppercorn to Robert Davers (subsequently Sir Robert Davers 1st Bt.). In 1730, Thomas Davers of St George and Sir Jermyn Davers Bt., absentee in England [the grandsons of the 1st bt.), sold to the Hon John Frere of St Philip: (1) the Lower Estate; (2) Moonshine Hall, which was then 198 acres and on which there were 91 enslaved people. The Frere family continued to own Moonshine until at least 1800. Applewhaite Frere appears to have been the owner by 1777.

- 1730 [EY] → Joint owner

Moonshine Hall [ Barbados | St George ]