DAVIS, HENRY; b.; adm. (aged 15) Jan 1739/40 (Taylor's); left 1741.
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, RICHARD; b. 23 Jul 1855; adm. (G) 28 Sep 1865; left Mar 1870.
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, ROBERT; b.; adm. (aged 12) Nov 1727; in under school list 1729.
Davis, Robin Tullidge, son of Edgar Tullidge Davis, HM Parkside Sch. E. Horsley, Surrey, and Maude Beatrice, d. of William Macdonald Matthews of Tunbridge Wells; b. 12 July 1917; adm. Jan. 1931 (R); left July 1934; Nat. Coal Board 1947-73; bursar Parkside Sch. 1974-82; d. June 1987.
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, Sydney Charles Houghton, son of Edward Charles Davis, of South Kensington, by Georgina Mary Fielding; b. Jan. 9, 1887; adm. May 6, 1897 (R); left July 1903; apprenticed in the Daimler Works 1903-7; a racing motorist; served in Great Wars I and II; Lieut. R. N. V. R. (Armoured Car Section) June 15, 1916; Lieut. R. A. O. C. April 3, 1940; transferred to R.E. M. E.; Major; mentioned in despatches (N. W. Europe) L. G. May 10, 1945; author of Motor Racing (1932), Rallies and Trials (1935), Great British Drivers (1960) and other works on motoring subjects; m. 1st June 16, 1917, Rosamund Sylvia Evelyn, sister of Hugh Bertie Campbell Pollard (q.v.); 2nd 1956, Susanna, daughter of Jack Leo Aubrey-Hall, engineer, of Worcester; d. 9 Jan. 1981.
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, WALTER STEWART, third son of William Davis, Well Close, Gloucs., landowner, and Adelaide, third dau. of Miles Stringer, Effingham Hill, Surrey; b. 23 Aug 1865; adm. (H, later G) 23 Sep 1880; left Aug 1883; joined ICS 16 Nov 1884 as Officiating Assistant District Superintendent of Police; Assistant Political Officer, Black Mountain expedition 1888, 1891-2; with Chitral Relief Force 1895-6; Political Agent and Deputy Commissioner Nov 1905; Political Agent, Bhopal 1912; retired Jul 1920; JP (1927) Gloucestershire; m. 5 Aug 1897 Georgina, youngest dau. of David Ross CIE, Dingwall, Inverness-shire; d. 6 Jan 1946.