Montague Davenport

Montague Davenport (9 March 1844-15 April 1906) was a stock broker, magistrate and local politician in Middlesex.

The son of John Thistlewood Davenport, a manufacturing chemist, and his wife Cecilia, he was born in Bloomsbury.

By the late 1880s he was living in Twickenham, and in 1889 was elected to the first Middlesex County Council to represent the area. He sat as councillor for Twickenham West until he was promoted to be an alderman in 1900.

He died on Easter Sunday 1906 and was buried at Teddington Cemetery.

His son was Hayward Montague Davenport (1874-1959), a maritime painter and his grandson was also Montague Davenport (1916-2011) was a naval intelligence officer involved in organising allied landing in North Africa and Normandy during the Second World War.