DOROTHY DAVISON (LATER COOK/WIDDRINGTON) (BRITISH, BORN 1794)

Dorothy Davison (b. 1794) was the younger daughter of Alexander Davison (1750-1829), government contractor and friend and confident of Admiral Horatio Nelson. She married Captain Samuel Edward Cook R.N. in 1832 and together they assumed the name Widdrington upon the inheritance of the Newton Hall estate.