DAVIS, Nathan. Lived in an old Moorish palace 10 miles from Tunis many years; edited the Hebrew Christian Magazine 1852; became a Nonconformist minister; engaged excavating at Carthage and Utica for the British Museum 1856–58, chief antiquities he discovered were Roman mosaic pavements; author of Tunis, or selections from a journal during a residence in that Regency 1841; Evenings in my tent 2 vols. 1854; Carthage and her remains 1861; Ruined cities within Numidian and Carthaginian territories 1862. d. Florence 6 Jany. 1882. Antiquarian Mag. i, 152 (1882); Edwards’s Lives of the founders of the British Museum (1870) 666–8.
DAVIS, Richard Barrett (son of Mr. Davis, huntsman to the royal harriers). b. Watford, Herts. 1782; animal painter; exhibited 70 pictures at R.A., 57 at B.I. and 141 at Suffolk st. gallery 1802–53; animal painter to William iv, 1831. d. 9 Bedford place, Kensington, London 13 March 1854.
DAVIS, William. Founded a free school at Gower’s walk, Whitechapel, London 1807; one of founders of National Society 1811 and of Society for promoting enlargement, building and repairing of churches and chapels 1818. d. 19 Nov. 1854 aged 88.
DAVIS, William. b. Dublin 1812; portrait painter at Liverpool; professor of painting at Liverpool academy; exhibited 16 landscapes at the R.A. 1851–72. d. London 22 April 1873.
DAVISON, Rev. Edward (son of Rev. Edward Davison 1760–1839, Inc. of St. Nicholas, Durham). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 25 Nov. 1803 aged 15, B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810; fellow of Univ. coll. 1807–16; R. of Harlington, Middlesex 1822–56; P.C. of St. Nicholas, Durham 1825–56; author of Tentamen Theologicum, or an attempt to assist the young clergyman of the Church of England in the choice of a subject for his sermon on any Sunday throughout the year by E. D. 1850, and of several sets of lectures and sermons. d. Durham 22 May 1863.
DAVISON, Sir Henry (4 son of Thomas Davison of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London). Matric. from Trin. coll. Ox. 23 Oct. 1823 aged 18, scholar 1824, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 6 May 1834; puisne judge of supreme court of Madras 16 March 1857, chief justice 11 March 1859 to death; knighted by the Queen at Windsor castle 28 Nov. 1856; published with H. Merivale Reports in the Queen’s Bench and upon Writs of Error 1844. d. Ootacamund on the Neilgherry hills, Madras 3 Nov. 1860.
DAVISON, James William. b. London 5 Oct. 1813; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Royal Acad. of Music; wrote pianoforte music for Bohn’s Harmonist; edited the Musical World to death; musical critic of the Times 1850–78; wrote for the Saturday Review and Graphic; contributed to Grove’s Dictionary of music and musicians; author of An essay on the works of Frederic Chopin 1849. (m. 1860 Arabella Goddard the pianist). d. York hotel, Margate 24 March 1885. bur. Brompton cemetery, London 28 March. Theatre v, 230–4, 247–9 (1885); Musical Standard 4 April 1885 pp. 212–3; London Figaro 4 April 1885 p. 11, portrait.
DAVISON, John Robert (2 son of Rev. Edward Davison, R. of Harlington, Middlesex, who d. 1863). b. Church st. Durham 15 April 1826; ed. at Houghton and Durham gr. schs. and C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 2 Nov. 1849; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1866; chairman of Durham quarter sessions 1868; M.P. for city of Durham, Nov. 1868 to death; advocate general 28 Dec. 1870 to death; P.C. 8 Feb. 1871. d. The Auberies near Sudbury 15 April 1871. Law Journal vi, 282–3, 287–8 (1871); I.L.N. lviii, 427, 444 (1871), portrait, lix, 98 (1871).
DAVISON, Joseph (son of Thomas Davison of Sedgefield, Durham). Solicitor at Durham 1831; deputy registrar in Episcopal registry for wills Durham 1835–57; district registrar of Court of Probate 1857 to death; clerk and deputy steward of the Halmote Court at Durham (through which all transfers of copyhold property in co. Durham pass) 25 Nov. 1850 to death; held the office of Cursitor in the Palatinate Chancery Court 25 Jany. 1836 to death when office was abolished and documents were transferred to Record Office, London; principal proprietor of Bedlington colliery on the Tyne. d. Greencroft hall, Durham 20 Dec. 1868.
DAVISON, Maria Rebecca (dau. of Mr. Duncan of Liverpool, actor). b. Liverpool 1783; acted in England, Scotland and Ireland; first appeared in London at Drury Lane 8 Oct. 1804 as Lady Teazle; created the rôle of Juliana in The Honeymoon 31 Jany. 1805; acted at Drury Lane 1804–19 and 1825–29 and at Covent Garden 1819–21; her best parts were Maria in The Citizen and Miss Hardcastle in She stoops to conquer. (m. 31 Oct. 1812 James Davison, who d. March 1858). d. Brompton, London 30 May 1858. Mrs. C. Baron Wilson’s Our actresses i, 167–88 (1844); Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography i, 51–7 (1825), portrait; J. H. Leigh Hunt’s Critical essays on the performers of the London theatres (1807) 170–79; The London Stage vol. 3, portrait.