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Rh 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