DAVIES, Venerable Richard. V. of St. John’s, Brecknock 1804 to death; archdeacon of Brecknock 15 Feb. 1805 to death; canon of St. Davids 1805 to death. d. Residentiary house, St. David’s cathedral, Brecon 14 May 1859 aged 82.
DAVIES, Robert (eld. son of Peter Davies of York). b. York 19 Aug. 1793; solicitor at York 1814, town clerk 1827–48; F.S.A. 22 Dec. 1842; author or editor of The freeman’s roll of the city of York 1835; The Fawkes’s of York in the sixteenth century 1850; Notices of the mints and coinages at York 1854; The life of M. Rawdon, Camden Soc. 1863; A memoir of the York press 1868; Walks through the city of York 1880. d. The Mount, York 23 Aug. 1875.
DAVIES, Venerable Roland Robert. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827; archdeacon of Hobart Town, Tasmania 1855 to death. d. Ferndean, Hobart Town 13 Nov. 1880 aged 75.
DAVIES, Scrope Berdmore. Educ. at Eton 1796–99 and King’s coll. Cam., fellow 1805, senior fellow 1822 to death; B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; remarkable for his dexterity at all athletic games especially cricket and tennis, competed with Lord Byron in swimming; intimate friend of Tom Moore and Lord Byron who when on his death bed sent him a ring; Lord Byron’s Parisina is dedicated to him; lived at Ostend 1836; a well known talker and diner out. d. 2 Rue Miromenil, Paris 24 May 1852. T. C. Grattan’s Beaten Paths (1862) ii, 146–70.
DAVIES, Venerable Thomas Hart Francis Penrose. Educ. at Trin. hall, Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1841; C. of Holbrooke, Suffolk 1837–39; C. of Knaresborough 1839–41; P.C. of Trinity, Nottingham 1841–51; archdeacon of Melbourne, Australia 1851–53; V. of Ch. Ch. Ramsgate 1853 to death. d. Ramsgate 5 Jany. 1873 aged 76. Kent Coast Times 9 Jany. 1873 pp. 2, 3.
DAVIES, Thomas Stephens. b. 1794; F.R.S. Edin. 1831; F.S.A. 19 March 1840; professor of mathematics at R.M.A. Woolwich 1834 to death; edited many mathematical works. d. Broomhall cottage, Shooter’s hill, Kent 6 Jany. 1851. Westminster Review lv, 70–83 (1851); Mechanics’ Mag. 11 Jany. 1851 pp. 33–5; The Expositor i, 284 (1851), portrait.
DAVIES, William Edmund. b. King’s Cross, London 1819; employed by Cubitt and Co. as a carpenter; originated the betting list system 1846, hung up first of his betting lists at Salisbury Arms, Durham st. Strand, betting lists were declared illegal by act of parliament 20 Aug. 1853; lost £100,000 over the Derby 1852 when Daniel O’Rourke won, and £48,000 over the Derby 1853 when West Australian won; became known as the Leviathan; retired at end of racing season 1857. d. at 18 Gloucester place, Brighton 4 Oct. 1879. Rice’s History of the Turf ii, 271–80 (1879); Sporting Review, Jany. 1859 pp. 39–42; Sporting Times 30 May 1885 p. 2.
Note.—By his will he left property in railway shares valued at £60,000 to the Brighton corporation subject to the payment of certain annuities. His widow gave notice to dispute the will, but on 21 Jany. 1880 an arrangement was made by which the greater part of the property came to the corporation on her death. Preston park, Brighton which cost £50,000 was purchased with this money and opened 8 Nov. 1884.
DAVIS, Charles. b. near Hertford 15 Jany. 1788; whipper-in to his father who hunted the King’s harriers 1800 and Pistol boy to George iii; whipper-in to Mr. Sharpe’s staghounds 1812; huntsman to the Queen 1821–66; presented with a testimonial in London 5 Feb. 1859, which testimonial he left to the Queen. d. Royal Kennels, Ascot 26 Oct. 1866. bur. Sunninghill churchyard 2 Nov. His horse Comus, a gift from the Prince of Wales, was shot by his last wish and one ear of the horse in a small box was placed in his grave. Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, second series ii, 284–305; J. N. Fitt’s Covert side sketches (1878) 274–78; Sporting Review lx, 418–20 (1866), lvi, 402–8 (1866); Baily’s Mag. xii, 254, 326–36 (1867); The Sportsman n.s. ii, 277 (1837), portrait; I.L.N. xxxiv, 164, 165 (1859), portrait.
DAVIS, Right Rev. Charles Henry. b. Usk, co. Monmouth 18 May 1815; professed at St. Gregory’s, Downside near Bath 1834; a member of Benedictine order 1833; ordained priest Nov. 1840; pastor of Downside 1844–48; the first R.C. bishop of Maitland, Australia 1848 to death, consecrated 25 Feb. 1848; coadjutor of the archbishop of the diocese. d. Sydney 17 May 1854.