Background
Davers was the second surviving son of Sir Jermyn Davers, 4th Baronet and Margaretta Green.
Davers was the second surviving son of Sir Jermyn Davers, 4th Baronet and Margaretta Green.
He was brought up at Rushbrooke Hall, and educated at King Edward VI School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1755. Davers then undertook the Grand Tour. He became an officer in the British Army in 1758, being commissioned into the 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot.
He served in North America during the Seven Years" War.
In January 1761 he was promoted to the rank of Captain while in the service of the 99th Regiment of Foot. He was garrisoned in Ireland in 1766 and was promoted to Major.
In 1763 he inherited his brother"s title and estates. That year he became Member of Parliament for Bury Street Edmunds.
Davers held his seat in the House of Commons due to his close personal alliance with Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton.
Davers publicly aligned himself against William Pitt the Younger, but did not become a Whig and retained his independence. Davers lived at Rushbrooke Hall with Frances Treice, by whom he had five illegitimate sons and three illegitimate daughters. He was rumoured to have earlier married Mission Coutts, a planter’s daughter, in America while serving in the army, and to have had a son, Rushbrook.
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In 1768 he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Weymouth, sitting until 1774.