Charles Danvers (by 1580 – 21 October 1626), of Baynton,

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, Wiltshire and the

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, London, was an English politician. He was a

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(MP) of the

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for Ludgershall in 1614. Danvers married one Mary, of

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, Wiltshire, in 1605 and they had five sons and nine daughters. He died at his house at Baynton on 21 October 1626 and was buried in Edington church. Danvers had a fondness for the poet and priest

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, a distant relative, and had expressed a desire for him to marry one of his daughters. Herbert duly married Jane (d. 1661) at Edington church in 1629.

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