DAVIS, WILLIAM, son of Robert Davis, London; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1746; KS 1752.
DAVIS, WILLIAM, son of Thomas Davis, Westminster; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 15) Jun 1709; QS 1710; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1714, matr. 4 Jun 1714, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1714 - 34 (expiry year of grace as V. Staunton-on-Wye), Tutor 1719-26, Junior Censor 1725; BA 1718; MA 22 Mar 1720/1; secretary to Right Rev. George Smalridge (qv); ordained; Vicar of Staunton-on-Wye, Herefs., from 25 Apr 1733; Vicar of St. Martin and All Saints, Hereford, from 23 Jul 1754; d. 10 Feb 1790.
DAVIS, THOMAS WILLIAM, brother of George Augustus Davis (qv); b. 23 Sep 1829; adm. (G) 12 Feb 1844; QS 1844; left Midsummer 1846; a clerk, House of Lords from 31 Dec 1846; d. at Madeira 31 Oct 1859.
DAVIS, STAPLETON, son of John Davis, Montserrat, West Indies; b. (Kingston, Jamaica); adm.; QS (aged 15) 1713; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. pens. 20 Aug 1717; Clare Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 30 Aug 1718; migrated to Christ’s Coll., adm. pens. 29 Feb 1719/20, fellow commoner 1720-2; BA 1721/2 (incorp. Oxford 22 May 1723); ordained priest 17 Mar 1727/8; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1728; went out to St. Kitts, West Indies, with usual bounty of £20 as an “emigrant minister”, 12 Nov 1729; m. Sarah Millward.
DAVIS, ROBERT, son of Peter Davis, Wells, Somerset, barrister, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jul 1717; Min. Can. 1718; KS 1719; Lincoln Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 May 1723; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 3 Mar 1720/1, called to bar 16 Jun 1727.
Davis, John Frank, son of Frank Cecil Davis MBE, writer on art and antiques, of Welwyn, Herts, and Gysella Nelly, d. of Commandant Edgar Amedée Simeon Dusser of St-Georges-de-Didonne, France; b. 28 Feb. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (KS); left July 1935; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1935, BA 1938, MA 1967; Asst Princ. Min. of Economic Warfare 1939; PO RAFVR Apr. 1940, FO July 1941, Flt Lieut. Mar. 1942; Flt Lieut. RAF Sept. 1945, Sqdn Ldr Aug. 1947, Wing Cdr July 1954, Group Capt. Jan. 1959, Air Cdre Jan. 1964; DFC Mar. 1943, AFC Jan. 1950; OBE June 1957; retd from RAF 31 Dec. 1964; PR dir. Philips Industries (UK) Ltd 1971; m. 1st 9 Sept. 1939 Pamela Mary, d. of Air Cdre Archibald Robert Boyle CMG OBE MC RAF, of Stoke Hill, Guildford; 2nd 19 Sept. 1947 Elaine, d. of Harold Smorthwaite of Chislehurst, Kent; 3rd 19 Feb. 1980 Betty Waite; d. 7 Feb. 1988.
DAVIS, HENRY, son of Henry Davis, London; b.; adm. (aged 8) May 1717; KS 1722; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1726, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1726, scholar 14 Apr 1727; 10th in “ordo” 1729/30; BA 1729/30; MA 1733; BD 1742; DD 1749; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1732, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1733, Senior Fellow; occasional tutor 1741, 1744, 1745, Junior Dean 1746-7, Senior Dean 1747-8, Vice-Master 1764-6; ordained deacon (Lincoln) 23 Dec 1733, priest 1 Jun 1740; Vicar of Over, Cambs. 1745; Vicar of Trumpington, Cambs., 1747-63; Rector of Fakenham, Norfolk, from 1763; d. 1770 (will proved PCC 6 Jun 1770).
DAVIS, GEORGE, son of James Davis, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland; b.; in school list 1741; KS (aged 14) 1745, still 1746; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 May 1747; migrated to Queen’s Coll. Oxford 1 Jul 1748.
DAVIS, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, eldest son of Thomas Davis FRCS, London, surgeon, and Maria Christina, only dau. of John Spicer, Esher Place, Surrey; nephew by marriage of William Page (KS 1791, qv) (Alum. Westmon., 1852, 508); b. 17 Jun 1817; adm. 30 Jun 1828 (Stikeman's); KS 1832; left 1833; St. George’s Hospital; MRCS 1840; practised in Spring Gardens, Charing Cross; d. 23 May 1868.
DAVIES, WILLIAM; b. ; adm. ; KS 1678.