Talk:Scrope Berdmore Davies

Additonal sources

 * https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eight_Friends_of_the_Great/5
 * https://reginajeffers.blog/2013/03/29/eccentrics-of-the-regency-series-scrope-berdmore-davies/
 * https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/pdf/10.3828/bj.1978.2
 * https://androom.home.xs4all.nl/biography/p009661.htm
 * https://archive.org/details/memoirofrevfranc02hodguoft/page/100?q=%22Dished+diddled+and+done%22
 * https://www.wattpad.com/109705860-library-dandiacal-scrope-berdmore-davies-1782-1852
 * https://pastnow.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/october-27-1813-scrope-berdmore-davies-needs-money/
 * http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F52901
 * https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/21/books/the-invisible-muse-of-don-juan.html

Notably the first mentions mising mss dicovered in the last.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:34, 17 March 2019 (UTC).

Why is this "dandy" notable?
We're told he was a "dandy". Then ... NOTHING. Literally nothing else about his life and his reasons for notability. He's been put into the categories Eton King's Scholars and Whig (British political party) politicians, but neither of those are supported by anything whatsoever in the text of the article. --  Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  23:22, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Hopkins Northey identification
That is a double-barrelled surname, surely. But it isn't immediately clear who is involved.

Looks like William Richard Hopkins Northey (1785-1859) is a good fit. Davies's death is mentioned in Beaten Paths and Those Who Tread Them (1862) by Thomas Colley Grattan. It is said there that Hopkins Northey is now dead, placing the death date in the decade 1852 to 1862.

There is a legal case of the 1820s in Belgium relating to a C. Hopkins Northey. Not clear how that might fit in. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:10, 16 April 2021 (UTC)