{{short description|Member of the Parliament of England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use British English|date=January 2017}} '''William Danvers''' (1428 – 19 April 1504) of Chamberhouse Castle in Thatcham, Berkshire, was an English judge. He was a Serjeant-at-Law and a Justice of the Peace.
==Origins== He was a younger son of John Danvers (died 1449)<ref name="hop">{{HistoryofParliament |1386 |first=L. S. |last=Woodger |title=Danvers, John (d.1449) |url=http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1386-1421/member/danvers-john-1449}}</ref> of Calthorpe, near Banbury and of Prescote in the parish of Cropredy, both in Oxfordshire who served four times as a Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire, in 1420, 1421, 1423 and 1435.<ref name="hop"/> His mother (his father's second wife) was Joan Bruley, daughter and heiress of John Bruley, of Waterstock, Oxfordshire, a son of William Bruley, MP.<ref name="hop"/> His elder half-brother was Sir Robert Danvers (d.1467), another notable judge.
==Career== He became a Justice of the Peace for Oxfordshire in 1456, and served again for Berkshire in 1463.<ref name="rbh">{{cite web|url=http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/wdanvers.html|website=Royal Berkshire History |title=Sir William Danvers (1428-1504) |first=David |last=Nash Ford |date=2007 |accessdate=15 January 2009}}</ref> He represented Taunton in Parliament in 1467 and 1472, and with him in that Parliament was his brother Thomas, who sat for Downton. William was also member for Hindon in 1478.<ref name="rbh"/> He became a Serjeant-at-Law in 1485 and was made a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas on 5 February 1488.<ref>{{cite book|last=Foss|first=Edward|title=A Biographical Dictionary of the Justices of England (1066–1870)|publisher=John Murray |location=London |year=1870|page=213 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O0oBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA213}}</ref>
On the death of his brother Thomas Danvers in 1502, William Danvers inherited the manors of Adderbury, Colthorpe, and the family property in Banbury, Bourton, Cropredy, Milton, and elsewhere.<ref name="mac">{{cite book |title=Memorials of the Danvers Family (of Dauntsey and Culworth) |first=F. N. |last=Macnamara |location=London |publisher=Hardy & Page |date=1895 |page=177 |url=https://archive.org/details/memorialsofdanve00macn/page/176/mode/2up}}</ref>
==Marriage== In 1470 he married Anne Pury, by whom he was the grandfather of Edmund Docwra MP and great-grandfather of Henry Docwra, 1st Baron Docwra of Culmore.
==Death== He died on 19 April 1504 and was buried in St Mary's Church, Thatcham.
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