Items relating to the Davenport family, both connected with John Marriott Davenport. J.M. Davenport was the Clerk of the Peace for Oxfordshire from 1831 to 1881, Secretary to two Bishops of Oxford (Wilberforce and Mackarness) and Under-Sheriff for Oxfordshire, along with numerous other local appointments.
The records were deposited as accessions 406 in 1961 and 535 in 1964. Previously catalogued under reference Davenport and recatalogued by Katherine Kinrade in July 2023.