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Davenport

Legg inn av Leo van de Pas » 19 mar 2005 22:20:03

I received this description about Robert Davenport:

Robert Davenport is an accomplished author and screenwriter.

His books include Roots of the Rich and Famous, The Rich and Famous Baby Name Book, The Celebrity Birthday Book, Pets' Names of the Rich and Famous, The Celebrity Almanac and The Hereditary Society Blue Book.


Where does Mr. Davenport unearth these celebrity geneaological relationships? Some come from interviews with the celebrities themselves, and their families; others are the result of his own research. Other family connections come to him from professional and amateur geneaologists around the country who know of his mania for collecting the roots of the rich and famous.


Davenport attended Middlebury College (B.A.), St. John's Law School (J.D.), Harvard Business School(M.B.A.) and UCLA Film School (M.F.A.).


During Vietnam he was a naval flight officer, commanding a combat air crew with Patrol Squadron Forty-Four, and during the Gulf War he was a captain in the U.S. Army. After law school he worked for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and after business school worked at various entertainment companies, including CBS, Viacom, New World and Twentieth Century-Fox.


The history and geneaology of the Davenport family traces the ancestry and the descendants of the Rev. John Davenport, founder of New Haven, Connecticut and of Yale College. The ancestry of the Rev. John Davenport is traced back to Ormus de Davenport, who adopted the local name in Cheshire after receiving the Manor of Davenport from the Barons of Kinderton.


The most closely related Hollywood celebrity of the author is Oscar-winning actor/director/ producer Clint Eastwood. Their more recent relative is Asa Eastwood, who served as a sailor on the U.S.S. Constitution.


He lives in Los Angeles and works as a screenwriter.

D. Spencer Hines

Re: Davenport

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 19 mar 2005 23:37:03

Hilarious!

The part about The Reverend John Davenport, who was the CO-FOUNDER of
the New Haven Colony in 1638, in concert with Theophilus Eaton, is
partially correct and the part about Yale is bogus.

John Davenport [1597 - 1669/70] died about 30 years before Yale was
founded, in ANOTHER Connecticut city -- NOT New Haven.

Davenport did WANT a college in New Haven, however.

The rest is VERY ENTERTAINING.

Robert Davenport seems to have a fully-fed Hollywood Imagination and a
gift for BLARNEY.

DSH

""Leo van de Pas"" <leovdpas@netspeed.com.au> wrote in message
news:000801c52cc9$371e2be0$c3b4fea9@email...

| I received this description about Robert Davenport:
|
| Robert Davenport is an accomplished author and screenwriter.
|
| His books include Roots of the Rich and Famous, The Rich and Famous
Baby Name Book, The Celebrity Birthday Book, Pets' Names of the Rich and
Famous, The Celebrity Almanac and The Hereditary Society Blue Book.
|
|
| Where does Mr. Davenport unearth these celebrity geneaological
relationships? Some come from interviews with the celebrities
themselves, and their families; others are the result of his own
research. Other family connections come to him from professional and
amateur geneaologists around the country who know of his mania for
collecting the roots of the rich and famous.
|
|
| Davenport attended Middlebury College (B.A.), St. John's Law School
(J.D.), Harvard Business School(M.B.A.) and UCLA Film School (M.F.A.).
|
|
| During Vietnam he was a naval flight officer, commanding a combat air
crew with Patrol Squadron Forty-Four, and during the Gulf War he was a
captain in the U.S. Army. After law school he worked for the U.S.
Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and after business school
worked at various entertainment companies, including CBS, Viacom, New
World and Twentieth Century-Fox.
|
|
| The history and geneaology of the Davenport family traces the ancestry
and the descendants of the Rev. John Davenport, founder of New Haven,
Connecticut and of Yale College. The ancestry of the Rev. John Davenport
is traced back to Ormus de Davenport, who adopted the local name in
Cheshire after receiving the Manor of Davenport from the Barons of
Kinderton.
|
|
| The most closely related Hollywood celebrity of the author is
Oscar-winning actor/director/ producer Clint Eastwood. Their more recent
relative is Asa Eastwood, who served as a sailor on the U.S.S.
Constitution.
|
|
| He lives in Los Angeles and works as a screenwriter.

Gjest

Re: Davenport

Legg inn av Gjest » 19 mar 2005 23:48:46

You'd think that someone with three major graduate degrees would have
had to do *some* scholarly research to get those degrees and could
apply those criteria to genealogy. But maybe I'm wrong . . .

D. Spencer Hines

Re: Davenport

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 20 mar 2005 00:00:03

I suspect he's just out to make money.

DSH

<mhollick@mac.com> wrote in message
news:1111272526.446248.280980@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

| You'd think that someone with three major graduate degrees would have
| had to do *some* scholarly research to get those degrees and could
| apply those criteria to genealogy. But maybe I'm wrong . . .

Gjest

Re: Davenport

Legg inn av Gjest » 20 mar 2005 00:21:02

In a message dated 3/19/2005 6:06:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
poguemidden@hotmail.com writes:

I suspect he's just out to make money.

DSH

Don't knock it. That's the American way.

Being honorable doesn't always pay the bills.

Gordon Hale
Grand Prairie, Texas

D. Spencer Hines

Re: Davenport

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 20 mar 2005 05:40:02

Hilarious!

The part about The Reverend John Davenport, who was the CO-FOUNDER of
the New Haven Colony in 1638, in concert with Theophilus Eaton, is
partially correct and the part about Yale is bogus.

John Davenport [1597 - 1669/70] died about 30 years before Yale was
founded, in ANOTHER Connecticut city -- NOT New Haven.

However, it was not called Yale until several years later.

Davenport did WANT a college in New Haven, however.

The rest is VERY ENTERTAINING.

Robert Davenport seems to have a fully-fed Hollywood Imagination and a
gift for BLARNEY.

DSH

""Leo van de Pas"" <leovdpas@netspeed.com.au> wrote in message
news:000801c52cc9$371e2be0$c3b4fea9@email...

| I received this description about Robert Davenport:
|
| Robert Davenport is an accomplished author and screenwriter.
|
| His books include Roots of the Rich and Famous, The Rich and Famous
Baby Name Book, The Celebrity Birthday Book, Pets' Names of the Rich and
Famous, The Celebrity Almanac and The Hereditary Society Blue Book.
|
|
| Where does Mr. Davenport unearth these celebrity geneaological
relationships? Some come from interviews with the celebrities
themselves, and their families; others are the result of his own
research. Other family connections come to him from professional and
amateur geneaologists around the country who know of his mania for
collecting the roots of the rich and famous.
|
|
| Davenport attended Middlebury College (B.A.), St. John's Law School
(J.D.), Harvard Business School(M.B.A.) and UCLA Film School (M.F.A.).
|
|
| During Vietnam he was a naval flight officer, commanding a combat air
crew with Patrol Squadron Forty-Four, and during the Gulf War he was a
captain in the U.S. Army. After law school he worked for the U.S.
Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and after business school
worked at various entertainment companies, including CBS, Viacom, New
World and Twentieth Century-Fox.
|
|
| The history and geneaology of the Davenport family traces the ancestry
and the descendants of the Rev. John Davenport, founder of New Haven,
Connecticut and of Yale College. The ancestry of the Rev. John Davenport
is traced back to Ormus de Davenport, who adopted the local name in
Cheshire after receiving the Manor of Davenport from the Barons of
Kinderton.
|
|
| The most closely related Hollywood celebrity of the author is
Oscar-winning actor/director/ producer Clint Eastwood. Their more recent
relative is Asa Eastwood, who served as a sailor on the U.S.S.
Constitution.
|
|
| He lives in Los Angeles and works as a screenwriter.

TOF

Re: Davenport

Legg inn av TOF » 20 mar 2005 10:10:02

......... and who can blame him.
Why bother working years on research when there are fools out there who will
buy anything & believe it.
A
<GRHaleJr@aol.com> wrote in message news:7d.65726a62.2f6e0b83@aol.com...
In a message dated 3/19/2005 6:06:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
poguemidden@hotmail.com writes:

I suspect he's just out to make money.

DSH

Don't knock it. That's the American way.

Being honorable doesn't always pay the bills.

Gordon Hale
Grand Prairie, Texas

fairthorne

Re: Davenport

Legg inn av fairthorne » 20 mar 2005 13:41:02

The Internet Movie Database, although useful, does have gaps and errors

If you go to Robert Davenport's web page he gives several films for which he
has been screenwriter
None appear in any of my standard reference books (including those on B
pictures)

screenwriters as a class should not be denigrated, they include F Scott
FitzGerald, Raymond Chandler etc

cheers

Simon


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