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English Puritan clergyman and author John Davenport (1597-1670) founded the New Haven colony in America and was its theological ruler for its first 30 years. Of a distinguished English family, John Davenport was the fifth son of the mayor of Coventry....


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John Davenport (April 9, 1597 – May 30, 1670) was a puritan clergyman and co-founder of the American colony of New Haven. Born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England to a wealthy family, Davenport was educated at Oxford University. His father was...


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National Review
John Davenport, RIP.
07/03/1987: 446 words, approx. 2 pages
John Davenport, RIP JOHN DAVENPORT was one of the tight Time Inc.circle in the heady Luce years during the war and just after that kept its eye on the looming menace in the East. The little fraternity included Whittacker Chambers and John...
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The Independent - London
JOHN DAVENPORT ; Publisher at 'Reader's Digest'
11/21/2006: 1,140 words, approx. 4 pages
John Davenport was not one of those publishers who sip mineral water while taking their authors out for quick lunches. Still less was he a publisher who committed large sums to publishing books with only the vaguest glimmering of how to sell them. He...
 


 

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