Arthur Nigel Davenport was an English stage, television and film actor.
Davenport was born in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, to Katherine Lucy and Arthur Henry Davenport. His father was a bursar at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He grew up in an academic family and was educated at St Peters School, Seaford, Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Oxford. Originally he chose to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics but switched to English on the advice of one of his tutors.
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