DAVIS, Right Rev. Daniel Gateward (son of Rev. Wm. Davis). b. Island of St. Christopher, West Indies 1788; ed. at Reading and Pemb. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1823, D.D. 1842; went to the West Indies; R. of St. Paul’s, Charleston, Nevis; R. of St. George’s, Basseterre, St. Christophers; rural dean; archdeacon of Antigua 1837; visited England 1842; bishop of Antigua 21 Aug. 1842 to death, consecrated in Westminster Abbey 24 Aug. d. 3 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London 25 Oct. 1857.
DAVIS, Edward Dean. b. near Bath 1806; manager of Taunton theatre 1835; travelled the Devonshire circuit with a company 1843–46; lessee of T.R. Newcastle 1846–70; lessee of Lyceum theatre, Sunderland 1854, theatre was entirely destroyed by fire 23 Dec. 1855, theatre was reopened 29 Sep. 1856 when Henry Irving made his first appearance on the stage, lessee of the theatre again 1870–76. d. Eldon square, Newcastle 19 Feb. 1887.
DAVIS, George Lenox. Ensign 9 foot 15 Sep. 1808, lieut. col. 19 Dec. 1845 to 2 April 1852; inspecting field officer of Liverpool recruiting district 2 April 1852 to death; C.B. 27 June 1846. d. Galway 14 April 1852.
DAVIS, Hart. Commissioner of Excise 11 Aug. 1824, deputy chairman Sep. 1837 to 6 Jany. 1849; F.R.S. 20 May 1841. d. Bere hill house, Whitchurch 17 June 1854.
DAVIS, Henry George (son of Mr. Davis, master of St. Paul’s parochial schools, Knightsbridge, London). b. 4 Mills Buildings, Knightsbridge 14 Aug. 1830; clerk in a circulating library; contributed a series of articles on ‘Our local associations’ to West Middlesex Advertiser; prepared for the press Memorials of the hamlet of Knightsbridge with notices of its immediate neighbourhood, ed. by his brother C. Davis 1859; left in manuscript two unfinished works ‘Pimlico’ and ‘Recollections of Piccadilly’; wrote many antiquarian papers in Notes and Queries. d. St. Paul’s parochial school, Wilton place, Belgravia 30 Dec. 1857.
DAVIS, James Edward (son of Aaron Wall Davis, M.D. of Presteign, Radnorshire). b. 1817; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1842; revising barrister 1854; reporter for Law Journal Reports in Court of Exchequer 1855–64; stipendiary magistrate for Stoke-upon-Trent 1864–70, for Sheffield 1870–74; legal adviser to comrs. of Metropolitan Police 1874 to death; author of Prize essay on the laws for the protection of women 1854; Practice and evidence in the county courts 1855, 6 ed. 1887; The Criminal law consolidation statutes 1861; A manual of the law of registration and election 1868, 2 ed. 1879. d. suddenly at 4 Whitehall place, London 12 July 1887 in 70 year. Law Journal xxii, 397, 406, 426 (1887).
DAVIS, John Edward (son of Henry Davis, commander R.N.) b. 9 Aug. 1815; entered navy 5 July 1828; Second master in the Terror in Antarctic expedition 1839–43; surveyor to North Atlantic telegraph expedition in the Fox 1862; retired captain 9 Aug. 1870; naval assistant to the Hydrographer; author with his son of the Azimuth Tables; invented an improved sextant; drew the charts for Antarctic expedition 1839–43; the illustrations in Narrative of Sir James Clark Ross 1847 are from his drawings; F.R.G.S. d. Douglas house, Maze hill, Greenwich 30 Jany. 1877.
DAVIS, John Ford. b. Bath 1773; ed. in London and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 24 June 1797; L.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1808; phys. to general hospital, Bath 1817–34; author of An inquiry into the symptoms and treatment of Carditis, or inflammation of the heart 1808. d. Bath 1 Jany. 1864.
DAVIS, John Philip, called Pope Davis. Exhibited 33 pictures at the R.A., 17 at B.I. and 59 at Suffolk st. gallery 1811–57; painted at Rome 1824 a large picture of the ‘Talbot family receiving the benediction of the Pope’ (hence his cognomen ‘Pope Davis’); awarded a premium of £50 by directors of British Institution 1825; author of Facts of vital importance relative to the embellishment of the Houses of Parliament 1843; The Royal Academy and the National Gallery, What is the state of these institutions? 1858; Thoughts on great painters 1866. d. 67 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 28 Sep. 1862 in 79 year.
DAVIS, Joseph Barnard. b. York 13 June 1801; went as a surgeon in a whaling ship to the Arctic seas 1820; L.S.A. 1823, M.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at Shelton Hanley, Staffs. to death; M.D. St. Andrews 1862; collected a museum of skulls and skeletons of various races, larger than all the collections in British public museums, which he sold to Royal college of Surgeons 1880; F.S.A. 21 Dec. 1854; F.R.S. 4 June 1868; author of Popular manual of the art of preserving health 1836; Thesaurus Craniorum 2 vols. 1867–75; published with John Thurnam, M.D., Crania Britannica, or delineations of the skulls of the early inhabitants of the British Islands 1856–65. d. Hanley 19 May 1881. Nature 26 May 1881.