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DAVSON, SIR CHARLES SIMON, eldest son of George Louis Davson, Georgetown, Demerara, British Guiana, manager British Guiana Bank, and Josephine, dau. of Charles Joseph King, Northwick Terrace, London; b. 20 May 1857; adm. 26 Jan 1871 (James'); QS 15 Mar 1873; left Apr 1876; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 15 Aug 1876, matr. Mich. 1876; BA and LLB 1880; adm. Middle Temple 29 Apr 1878, called to bar 26 Jan 1882; British Guiana bar; Stipendiary Magistrate, British Guiana 1888-98, Solicitor-General 1898-1905; Puisne Judge, Mauritius Supreme Court 1905-14; Chief Justice, Fiji, and Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific 3 Oct 1914-22; knighted 21 Feb 1917; m. 16 Jan 1889 Mary Rosa Matilda, dau. of Lynch Thomas MD, Barbados; d. 6 Nov 1933.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.