m. 1854 Anna Sophia, dau. of Rev. John S. Jenkinson, Vicar of Battersea. Oh dear, what a title. Apparently Anna Sophia’s mother was Harriet Caroline Augusta Grey, daughter of some viscount lot of Greys. Burke’s Peerage puts in all the details it can when a title appears on the horizon. Otherwise, the details are genteely ignored. Whole pile of issue here.

Henry Davenport wrote a rather well-known book “The Birds of Iona and Mull” [29] which contains quite a lot of personal reminiscences, and is a rather interested read, even for someone (like me) who has zero interest in birds.

When he was young, around five years old, in 1830, the whole family went for a tour of Europe, and then spent the next few years to and fro between Paris, Clapham, Eastbourne, with a visit to Edmond Castle thrown in for good measure. In 1839 he went into the navy, and most of the rest of the memoirs are to do with him navy days.

After his marriage they spent two years in Canada, doing who knows what. All his life he made sketches of birds and the local wildlife, and was an accomplished artist.