Claim: Joseph Danvers was a politician from England who was a Member of Parliament for  Leicestershire  and was appointed High Sheriff of Leicestershire for 1721.
Evidence: Sir Joseph Danvers, 1st Baronet (24 December 1686 – 21 October 1753), of Swithland, Leicestershire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1747. England He was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for Boroughbridge at a by-election on 24 October 1722 by the Duke of Newcastle at the request of Lord Sunderland. At the 1727 British general election he was returned as MP for Bramber. He switched seats and was returned as MP for Totnes at the 1734 British general election. Devon Bramber was a parliamentary borough in Sussex, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. Boroughbridge was a parliamentary borough in Yorkshire from 1553 until 1832, when it was abolished under the Great Reform Act.