English divine and educationalist, born at Chichester on the 26th of February 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, 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 on the 17th of May 1916. He was part author of Davies and Vaughan’s well-known translation of Plato’s Republic.
