Harry Tichborne Davenport J.P. (1833 – 19 March 1895),[1] known from 1890 as Harry Tichborne Hinckes, was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician who was elected to the House of Commons for constituencies in his native Staffordshire on two occasions in the 1880s.
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Davenport was the son of John Davenport of Westwood, Staffordshire, a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant of the county. He was educated at Harrow and at Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1860 at the Inner Temple.[2] He later followed in his father's footsteps and became a magistrate,[2] and in 1889 was appointed as an honorary Commissioner in lunacy.[3]
He first stood for Parliament at the 1874 general election in Newcastle-under-Lyme,[4] and was unsuccessful again at a by-election in Stoke-upon-Trent in February 1875.[5]
At the 1880 general election Davenport was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for the Northern division of Staffordshire.[6][7] He held that seat for 5 years, until the division was abolished under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, when the two-member county divisions and many parliamentary boroughs were replaced with new single-member county divisions. Davenport stood in the new Leek division at the 1885 general election, where he was narrowly beaten by the Liberal Party candidate Charles Crompton.[8]
At the 1886 election, he overturned Compton's majority and was returned to the Commons as MP for Leek.[8][9] However, he did not defend his seat in 1892, when he retired from Parliament.[8]
Davenport was married in 1868 to Georgiana Henrietta, the eldest daughter of Sir William Curtis, 3rd Baronet,[2] a former High Sheriff of Shropshire.[10] They had no children.[11]
In 1881, his clubs were listed as the United University Club and the Carlton Club.[2]
On 12 November 1890, near the end of his political career, he changed his surname by Royal License to Hinckes,[8][11] to fulfil a condition in the will of Theodosia Hinckes.[12]
He died on 19 March 1895,[1] and his estate was bequeathed to his nephew Ralph Tichborne Davenport.[13]
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Preceded by Robert William Hanbury Colin Minton Campbell |
Member of Parliament for North Staffordshire 1880 – 1885 With: William Young Craig |
Constituency abolished |
Preceded by Charles Crompton |
Member of Parliament for Leek 1886 – 1892 |
Succeeded by Charles Bill |