• Name: Danvers, Richard Augustus Butler
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date:
• Death Date: 25  April  1820

See Holcroft’s Life in which he calls on ‘Jew King’ and then is nearly run over by his ‘son-in-law’ (Augustus Richard) Butler Danvers. The editor corrects this to step-son – but that attribution is odd, unless he is the son of Lady Lanesborough. All 1797, 1798, 1799 and 1800 (save one at Lanesborough’s) entries are dinners at King’s, as are the great majority of 1801, 1802 and 1807. Taylor, in Records of my Life, identifies Butler Danvers as the son of Lady Lanesborough who took the name Danvers after marrying an heiress to a considerable fortune by that name. The second wife of Mr Danvers, according to Taylor, was Miss Sturt, sister to Capt Sturt, RN. Identification is further confirmed by entry in vol. 1 of John Burke's A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain.

Godwin recorded his death.

• John Taylor, Records of my Life, 2 vols (London, 1832)
• Thomas Holcroft, The life of Thomas Holcroft, continued by William Hazlitt, ed. by Elbridge Colby, 2 vols (London: Constable and Co., 1925), vol. 2, pp. 202-3.
• John Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain, 4 vols (London, 1833-38), p.149.

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