Abstrupus Danby
This article has multiple issues. Please help or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Sir Abstrupus Danby (27 December 1655 – 27 December 1727) was an English wool merchant and country gentleman. He was the son of Christopher Danby and Anne Culpepper, niece of Lord Colepeper.
He was knighted at Kensington in 1691, and was also a justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant for Yorkshire.
In 1695, upon the death of his father, he built himself a new house at Swinton Park and sold off the family's old house of . Upon his death in 1727, his properties were inherited by his son, also named Abstrupus Danby.
References[]
Categories:
- 1655 births
- 1727 deaths
- English MPs 1698–1700
- 17th-century merchants
- 18th-century merchants
- Danby family
- 17th-century English businesspeople
- 18th-century English businesspeople
- English business biography stubs
- 17th-century English MP stubs