side of the monument are lines ostensibly written by his kinsman, George Herbert, who paid a long visit at Dauntsey in 1629. If they are genuinely by him the epitaph must have been written many years before Danby's death, as Herbert died in 1633. Herbert's biographer, John Drury, has, however, questioned the accuracy of the attribution. On 12 March 1622 Danvers conveyed to the university of Oxford five acres of land, opposite Magdalen College, which had formerly served as a Jewish cemetery, for the encouragement of the study of physic and botany. He had the ground raised and enclosed within a high wall. The gateway of the Oxford Botanic Garden, designed by Nicholas Stone, a master mason who frequently worked with Inigo Jones, still bears the following inscription, 'Gloriae Dei Opt. Max. Honori Caroli Regis, in usum Acad. et Reipub. Henricus comes Danby DD. MDCXXXII.' By his will, he left the rectory of Kirkdale in Yorkshire towards the maintenance of the gardens. References |- 1573 births 1644 deaths English soldiers 16th-century English soldiers 17th-century soldiers Knights of the Garter Earls in the Peerage of England Members of the Privy Council of England 17th-century Anglo-Irish people 16th-century English nobility 17th-century English nobility Henry People from Wiltshire