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Scrope Berdmore Davies (1782–1852), was an English Regency dandy.[1]

Early life

Scrope was born in 1782 in Horsley, Gloucestershire, the second of six sons (and four daughters) (or four sons and three daughters, according to William Prideaux Courtney)[2] of Revd Richard Davies (1747–1825).[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-59368
  2. ^ William Prideaux Courtney (1910). Eight Friends of the Great. London: Constable and Company Ltd. p. 103.

Further reading

  • Friends of the Great 5
  • T. A. J. Burnett, The Rise and Fall of a Regency Dandy, The Life and times of Scrope Davies, John Murray, London, 1981
  • John S. Chapman, Byron and the Honourable Augusta Leigh, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1975

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