Davenport
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Davenport may refer to:
Family
[edit]- Davenport, originally Bromley-Davenport a British family settled in Cheshire a hamlet near Congleton. In 1369, through marriage the family came into the possession of the Hall of Hugh Calveley, the manor of Calveley in Bunbury, Cheshire.[1]
Places
[edit]Australia
[edit]- Davenport, Northern Territory, a locality
- Hundred of Davenport, cadastral unit in South Australia
- Davenport, South Australia, suburb of Port Augusta
- District Council of Davenport, former local government area near Port Augusta
- Corporate Town of Davenport, former local government municipality near Port Augusta
- Electoral district of Davenport, in South Australia
- Davenport, Western Australia, a suburb of Bunbury
Canada
[edit]- Davenport (federal electoral district), a federal electoral district
- Davenport (provincial electoral district), in Ontario
- Ward 9 Davenport, a city council ward in Toronto
- Davenport, Toronto, a neighbourhood and former village in Toronto
- Davenport Road, Toronto
United Kingdom
[edit]- Davenport, Cheshire, a hamlet near Congleton
- Davenport, Greater Manchester, an area of Stockport
United States
[edit]- Davenport, Iowa, the largest city of that name in the US
- Davenport, California
- Davenport, Florida
- Davenport, Nebraska
- Davenport, New York
- Davenport, North Dakota
- Davenport, Oklahoma
- Davenport, Virginia
- Davenport, Washington
- Davenport Creek, a stream in Utah
- Davenport Glacier, in North Cascades National Park, Washington
- Davenport Lake, a lake in Georgia
- Davenport Municipal Airport (Washington)
- Davenport Neck, a peninsula in New York
Education
[edit]- Davenport College, a residential college at Yale University
- Davenport University, a college in Michigan
- Davenport chained rotations - A theorem about chaining rotations
Furniture
[edit]- Davenport (sofa), a series of sofas, now a genericized trademark for "sofa"
- Davenport desk, an antique desk form
Music
[edit]- The Davenports, a rock band from New York, formed in 2000
People
[edit]- Davenport (surname), a list of people with the name
Characters
[edit]- Achilles Davenport, a character from the video game Assassin's Creed III
- Davenport, the surname of several characters from the T.V. series Lab Rats
- Lucas Davenport, created by novelist John Sandford
- Lieutenant Colonel Alvin H. "Chopper" Davenport, a character from the video game Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
- Ashley Davenport, a character in Revenge (TV series)
- Cooter Davenport, a character in the American TV series The Dukes of Hazzard
- Dave Davenport, a character from the online webcomic Narbonic
- Dawn Davenport, the main character played by Divine in the John Waters film, Female Trouble
- Gemma Davenport, a character from British soap opera Coronation Street
- Henry Davenport, a character from the comedy series Drop the Dead Donkey
- Mrs. Davenport, a character from the animated cartoon Jimmy Neutron
- Davenport, a character from the McElroy family's podcast The Adventure Zone
- Hubert Davenport, a character from the British children's comedy Rentaghost
- Andrea Davenport, a character from the Disney Channel animated series The Ghost and Molly McGee
Science and mathematics
[edit]- Davenport constant
- Davenport diagram, a graphical tool used in acid base physiology
- Davenport rotations, a mathematical decomposition of a matrix as a set of chained rotations
Other uses
[edit]- Davenport Locomotive Works, an American locomotive manufacturer
- Davenport Pottery, a manufacturer of pottery in Longport, Staffordshire in the Nineteenth Century
- USS Davenport, a US Tacoma-class frigate
See also
[edit]- ^ Axon, William Edward Armytage (1885–1900). "Calveley, Hugh" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 88. pp. 262–263.