DAVIES, Evan. Watchmaker at Pontypridd; known as Myfyr Morganwg, Arch-Druid of Wales, recognized head of the Druids who meet periodically around famous rocking stone at Pontypridd; published several works on Druidism which he argued was the true religion, and several others on Celtic mythology. d. Pontypridd 23 Feb. 1888 in 89 year.
DAVIES, Francis John (youngest son of Thomas Davies of New house, co. Hereford 1751–92, advocate general Calcutta). b. 1 May 1791; ensign 52 foot 3 Feb. 1808; captain Grenadier guards 30 April 1827 to 18 May 1841 when placed on h.p.; col. of 67 foot 15 Jany. 1858 to death; general 14 Jany. 1866. d. 8 Eaton place, London 4 Dec. 1874.
DAVIES, George. b. Wells 15 Dec. 1800; entered navy 23 June 1813; inspecting commander in coast guard of Banff district, July 1843, of Penzance district 3 July 1848 to 1 Jany. 1851; captain 1 Jany. 1851; saved the lives of more than 200 persons at shipwrecks; retired V.A. 29 May 1873; chief constable of Cambridgeshire, Nov. 1851 to death, and of Hunts. April 1857 to death. d. 10 Scrope terrace, Cambridge 24 Nov. 1876. O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict. (1861) 281–2; I.L.N. xviii, 61–2 (1851).
DAVIES, Griffith (son of Owen Davies, farmer, who d. 21 March 1854 aged 93). b. parish of Llandwrog, Carnarvon 28 Dec. 1788; kept a school in London 1811; actuary to Guardian Assurance Co. 1823 to death; constructed many tables for the Reversionary Interest Soc. 1823; F.R.S. 16 June 1831; wrote 20 reports on the various Indian funds for the H.E.I.Co.; author of Key to Bonnycastle’s Trigonometry 1814; Tables of life contingencies containing the rates of mortality among the members of the Equitable Society 1825. d. 25 Duncan terrace, Islington, London 21 March 1855. Assurance Mag. July 1855 pp. 337–48; C. Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia ii, 172–4; Pink’s Clerkenwell (1881) 705–8.
DAVIES, Henry. b. London 1782; M.R.C.S. 1803; served in army medical service; M.D. Aberdeen 26 Sep. 1823; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1823; phys. to British Lying-in hospital; lecturer on midwifery at St. George’s hospital; edited M. Underwood’s Treatise on the diseases of children 1846; author of The young wife’s guide 1852. d. London 9 Jany. 1862.
DAVIES, Henry Thomas. Entered navy 3 March 1794; captain 19 Feb. 1814; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. d. Bath 21 Feb. 1869 aged 91.
DAVIES, Herbert (son of Thomas Davies of London, physician 1792–1839). b. London 30 Sep. 1818; scholar of Gonville and Caius coll. Cam. 1838, migrated to Queen’s coll.; 31 wrangler 1842; B.A. 1842, M.B. 1843, M.D. 1848; fellow of Queen’s coll. 1844; assistant phys. to London hospital 5 Aug. 1845, phys. 1854–74; F.R.C.P. 1850; phys. to Bank of England; author of Lectures on the physical diagnosis of the diseases of the lungs and heart 1851, 2 ed. 1854, translated into German and Dutch; On the treatment of rheumatic fever in its acute stage exclusively by free blistering 1864. d. Hampstead 4 Jany. 1885. Medical Circular iii, 439 (1853), portrait.
DAVIES, Rev. James (2 son of Richard Banks of Kington, Herefordshire). b. Kington 20 May 1820; ed. at Repton and Lincoln coll. Ox., scholar; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1846; Inc. of Ch. Ch. Forest of Dean 1847–52; head master of Ludlow gr. sch. 1852–57; took name of Davies in lieu of Banks 1858; wrote majority of classical articles in Saturday Review many years; author of a remarkable essay on ‘Epigrams’ in Quarterly Review Jany. 1865; translated Hesiod, Theognis and Callimachus into prose for Bohn’s Classical library; wrote vols. on Hesiod and Theognis and on Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius for Collins’s Ancient Classics for English readers; revised several of Murray’s Guides for the press; author of a vol. of original verse entitled Nugæ 1854. d. Moor Court, Kington 11 March 1883.
DAVIES, Rev. John. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1831, D.D. 1844; R. of Gateshead 1840 to death; hon. canon of Durham, Feb. 1853 to death; author of An estimate of the human mind, a philosophical inquiry into the legitimate application and extent of its leading faculties 1828; The ordinances of religion practically illustrated and applied 1832, and about 20 other works. d. Ilkley Wells, Yorkshire 21 Oct. 1861.
DAVIES, Lucy Clementina (youngest child of Leon Maurice called by courtesy Lord Leon Maurice Drummond de Melfort 1761–1826). b. Château of St. Germain near Paris 21 Nov. 1795; granted precedency of an Earl’s daughter by r.l. 30 Sep. 1853; author of Recollections of society in France and England 2 vols. 1872, a work which contains much of her family history. (m. 8 Sep. 1823 Francis Henry Davies a registrar of Court of Chancery, who d. 22 Oct. 1863 aged 72). d. 22 Palace gardens terrace, Kensington, London 27 April 1879.