About Thomas Davers
Lived 1689 – 1746 (aged 56–57). Thomas Davers was a naval officer.
Vice-Admiral Thomas Davers (1689 – 16 September 1746) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station.
Naval career Born the third son of Sir Robert Davers, 2nd Baronet, Davers was promoted to post captain in January 1713 on appointment to the command of the sixth-rate HMS Seaford. He transferred to the command of the sixth-rate HMS Solebay in August 1718, of the fifth-rate HMS Adventure in 1719 and of the fifth-rate HMS Dolphin in 1728. until he died of yellow fever in Jamaica on 16 September 1746. He married Catherine Smithson with whom he lived at Horringer Hall at Horringer in Suffolk.
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