Sir Jermyn Davers, 4th Baronet

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Sir Jermyn Davers, 4th Baronet (c.1686 – 20 February 1743) was an English landowner from Rougham and Rushbrooke in Suffolk and a Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1743.

He was the second son of Sir Robert Davers, 2nd Baronet, and Hon. Mary Jermyn. He grew up at Rushbrooke Hall and went on to study at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1704 at age 17. In 1722 he was elected as a Tory Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds, and he became the 4th Baronet on 20 May 1723 after his brother’s death.

In 1725 he voted against a motion to restore Viscount Bolingbroke’s inheritance. In 1726 he inherited part of the Jermyn estates, including Cheveley in Cambridgeshire and Dover Street in London, from his great-uncle Henry Jermyn, 1st Baron Dover. He was re-elected MP for Suffolk in 1727, topping the poll, and he generally voted against the government. In 1730 he and his brother Thomas sold two Barbados estates (and the enslaved people attached to them) to the Frere family, a holdover from his father’s holdings. He was returned unopposed for Suffolk in the elections of 1734 and 1741.

Dav ers apparently had two illegitimate sons before marrying Margaretta Green, daughter of Rev. Edward Green, rector of Drinkstone, on 21 October 1729. He and Margaretta had four legitimate sons (two of whom later shot themselves) and two daughters. He died on 20 February 1743. The baronetcy passed first to his son Robert, who was killed in Canada during Pontiac’s Rebellion, and then to Charles.