services to the educational side of his art were considerable. His atelier produced no less than nine holders of the Grand Prix de Rome a notable record. He died Dec. 13 1911.
DAVIDS, THOMAS WILLIAM RHYS (1843- ), British
orientalist, was born at Colchester May 12 1843. Educated
at a school in Brighton and at Breslau University he entered
the Ceylon civil service in 1866 and also read for the bar, be-
coming a barrister of the Middle Temple in 1877. He became
a close student of Buddhism and of the literatures of India, and
in 1882 was appointed professor of Pali ad Buddhist literature
at University College, London. In 1904 he became professor of
comparative religion at the university of Manchester. Amongst
his numerous publications are Buddhism (1878, i8th ed. 1899);
Ancient Coins and Measures of Ceylon (1877); Buddhist India
(1902); Marly Buddhism (1908); and the articles on Buddha,
Buddhism, Pali, Lamaism, etc. in the E.B. He became president
of the Pali Text Society, which he founded in 1882, and a fellow
of the British Academy. He married in 1894 Caroline Augusta
Foley, herself the author of Buddhist Psychology (1900), Psalms
of the First Buddhist (1910) and other works.
DAVIDSON, RANDALL THOMAS (1848- ), Archbishop
of Canterbury (see 7.863), in 1920 brought forward in the House of Lords a motion opposing Lord Birkenhead's Divorce bill,
which was lost by one vote. The same year he presided over the
sixth Lambeth conference.
DA VIES, HENRY WALFORD (1869- ), English organist
and composer, was born at Oswestry, Salop, Sept. 6 1869.
After a preliminary private education he became a choris-
ter at St. George's chapel, Windsor, in 1882, and three years
later assistant organist to Sir Walter Parratt there. From
1890 to 1894 he was a pupil and scholar at the Royal College
of Music, where in 1895 he became a teacher of counterpoint.
There he came first into some prominence as composer with his
cantata Herve Kiel (1894), but meanwhile he was making his
way as organist. After filling several posts he was in 1898 appointed organist to the Temple church, a post he still holds
(1921). During the years 1903 to 1907 he was conductor to the
London Bach Choir insuccession to Stanford, and in 1919 he
was appointed professor of music in the University College of
Wales, at Aberystwith. For a great part of the World War, with
the rank of major, he worked with great success for the right
organization of music among the troops both abroad and
at home, and in 1918 he was made director of music to the R.A.F.
Walford Davies has written much music in many forms. In his list are two symphonies : A Solemn Melody, which attained to a wide popularity, and, for chorus and orchestra, Everyman (1904); Ode on Time (1908); The Sayings of Jesus (1911); Dante Fantasy (1914), these having been produced chiefly at provincial festivals; Heaven's Gate (People's Palace, 1917). A new choral work was in the programme of the Hereford festival for Sept. 1921. In addition there are seven quartets for various combinations of piano and strings, or strings alone; six violin sonatas and several works for voices and strings, part-songs, choruses, and hymn tunes.
DAVIES, HUBERT HENRY (1876-1917), English play-
wright, was born in Cheshire March 17 1876. After some years
of journalism in San Francisco, where he also produced a few
vaudevilles, he returned to England and made a success at the
Haymarket theatre in 1903 with Cousin Kate and a greater
success at Wyndham's theatre with Mrs. Gorringe's Necklace.
Among his other comedies were The' Mollusc (1907), and Doormats (1912). He produced The Outcast (1914). After overworking himself in France as a hospital orderly during the earlier
portion of the World War, he had a break-down in health, and
he was found dead at Robin Hood's Bay, Yorks., Aug. 17 1917.
DAVIES, JOHN LLEWELYN (1826-1916), English divine and educationalist, was born at Chichester Feb. 26 1826. He was
educated at Repton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he
was bracketed as fifth classic in 1848, and was elected to a fellowship at Trinity in 1851. He was ordained in 1850 and held
successively several London livings. He was made chaplain
to the Queen in 1876, and in 1889 became vicar of Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland, where he remained till 1908. Davies was an intimate friend of John Frederick Denison Maurice (see
17.910), and was associated with him in the foundation of the
Working Men's College (1854), where he taught for many years.
He was elected to the first London school board in succession
to Huxley, and in 1873 became principal of Queen's College,
Harley St., which had been founded by Maurice in 1848 for the
advancement of women's education. He held this post until
1874, and was again principal from 1878 to 1886. Davies died
at Hampstead May 17 1916. He was part author of Davies
and Vaughan's well-known translation of Plato's Republic.
DAVIES, SARAH EMILY (1830-1921), British educationalist, was born at Southampton April 22 1830. She was educated
at home, and later identified herself with the movement for
the higher education of women, being also one of a group
of women who about 1858 were discussing the question
of women's suffrage at the Kensington Society. In 1862 she
became secretary to the committee which was formed for the
purpose of procuring the admission of women to university
examinations, and from 1870 to 1873 was a member of the Lon-
don school board. In 1873 she was elected a life governor of
University College, London, and in 1882 became secretary of
Girton College, Cambridge, retiring in 1904. She published
The Higher Education of Women (1866) and Thoughts on some
Questions relating to Women (1860-1908, 1910). She died in
London July 13 1921.
DAVIES, WILLIAM HENRY (1870- ), British poet, was born at Newport, Monm., April 20 1870. He was apprenticed to a picture-frame maker, but when his apprentice days were over he tramped through America, crossed the Atlantic many times on cattle boats, became a pedlar and street singer in
England, and after eight years of this life published his first
volume of poems, The Soul's Destroyer, from the Marshalsea
prison. Next year appeared in prose The Autobiography of a
Super-Tramp (1908) with a preface by G. Bernard Shaw, as
well as Nature Poems and Others. A collected edition of his
poems appeared in 1916, and Forty New Poems in 1918. He also
published a novel, A Weak Woman (1911), and volumes of
nature studies and essays, including A Poet's Pilgrimage
(1918).
DAVIS, HENRY WILLIAM BANKS (1833-1914), English
painter (see 7.866), died at Glaslyn, Radnorshire, Dec. i 1914.
DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING (1864-1916), American writer, was born in Philadelphia April 18 1864. He studied at Lehigh
University and Johns Hopkins, and in 1886 became a reporter
on the Philadelphia Record. After working on several papers he
served as managing editor of Harper's Weekly. He became wide-
ly known as a war correspondent, reporting every war from the
Greco-Turkish War (1897) to the World War. Of his numerous
works of fiction, the earliest are his best, especially Gallegher and
Others (1891); Van Bibber and Other Stories (1892) and Episodes
from Van Bibber's Life (1899). His other books include: Soldiers
of Fortune (1897); Captain Macklin (1902); Vera the Medium
(1908); The Bar Sinister (1904) and With the French in France
and at Salonika (1916). His plays include Miss Civilization;
The Dictator; The Galloper; The Orator of Zapata City and The
Zone Police. He died near Mt. Kisco, N.Y., April n 1916
DAVISON, HENRY POMEROY (1867- ), American banker, was born at Troy, Pa., June 13 1867. He was educated at Greylock Institute, South Williamstown, Mass. He was successively errand-boy in the bank conducted by his uncle in Troy, Pa., runner for a Bridgeport (Conn.) bank and paying-teller in
the newly opened Astor Place Bank in New York City, remaining there from 1891 to 1894. From 1894 to 1902 he was connected with the Liberty National Bank, New York, successively as assistant-cashier, vice-president and president. In 1902 he became vice-president of the First National Bank, and in
1907, following his activities during the panic of that year, he entered the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., of which he was in 1921 still a member. In 1908 he was appointed adviser to the National Monetary Commission to investigate the financial systems of
Europe. Later he served at the head of a group of American bankers interested in the Six Power Chinese Loan. From 1917
