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Davis, William, fl. 1746
GB-2014-WSA-05906 · Person · fl. 1746

DAVIS, WILLIAM, son of Robert Davis, London; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1746; KS 1752.

GB-2014-WSA-05904 · Person · ca. 1694-1790

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.

GB-2014-WSA-05902 · Person · 1829-1859

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, ca. 1698-?
GB-2014-WSA-05900 · Person · ca. 1698-?

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, ca. 1704-?
GB-2014-WSA-05897 · Person · ca. 1704-?

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, 1917-1988
GB-2014-WSA-05895 · Person · 1917-1988

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, ca. 1709-1770
GB-2014-WSA-05893 · Person · ca. 1709-1770

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, ca. 1731-?
GB-2014-WSA-05888 · Person · ca. 1731-?

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.

GB-2014-WSA-05887 · Person · 1817-1868

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.