Sir Robert Davers, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Davers, 1st Baronet (c.1620 – June 1684) was an English settler, plantation owner and slave owner in Barbados.

Biography Davers' parentage is unknown, but he was likely born in England in around 1620. He was likely the Robert Davers who is recorded as having sailed to the English colony of Barbados in April 1635, aged 14, with 78 other English settlers. By 1673, he was the owner of 600 acres on the island, as well as at least 200 enslaved African people. This brought Davers great wealth, and in 1680 he returned to England to purchase the Rougham estate in Suffolk. On 12 May 1682, he was created a baronet, of Rougham in the Baronetage of England; one of numerous titles created by Charles II of England to recognise leaders in what was then England's richest colony in the Americas. His portrait is in the collection at Ickworth House.