Background
Bromley-Davenport was the son of William Bromley Davenport and his wife Augusta Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of Walter Campbell, of Islay.
Bromley-Davenport was the son of William Bromley Davenport and his wife Augusta Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of Walter Campbell, of Islay.
He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.
He fought with distinction in both the Second Boer War and the First World War. An Member of Parliament from 1886 to 1906, he held political office under Arthur Balfour as Financial Secretary to the War Office from 1903 to 1905. Bromley-Davenport played football for Oxford University and Old Etonians.
He represented England on two occasions in March 1884, against Scotland and Wales respectively.
A centre-forward, he scored two goals in the game against Wales. At the end of 1901, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire.
However, he lost his seat in the House of Commons in the 1906 Liberal landslide. During the First World War Bromley-Davenport commanded the 22nd Mounted Brigade of the Egyptian Expedition Force with the rank of Brigadier-General from 1916 to 1917.
He was also Assistant Director of Labour from 1917 to 1918.
Between 1920 and 1949 he held the honorary post of Lord-Lieutenant of Cheshire.
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Bromley-Davenport was elected Member of Parliament for Macclesfield in the July 1886 general election.
He served in the Conservative administration of Arthur Balfour as Financial Secretary to the War Office from 1903 to 1905 and was a Civil Member of the Army Council from 1904 to 1905.