(From Abingdon School Register 1563-1947)
DAVIS, Arthur (1850-1928). Son of Gabriel Davis (1807-1889), merchant, East St Helen Street, Abingdon. AS 1861-? To South Africa. South African Frontier Mounted Police. Served, Morosi rebellion (1877-78), Cape Colony. Served, Zulu war (1879). Free State Civil Service, Customs. Served, Boer War. Guide and intelligence officer (1899). Served, First World War, aged sixty. Dyed his hair and assumed military age of forty. Served in General Botha’s invasion, German South West Africa (1914). Brother of DDD, OD, RD, WD, GD and LD. Nephews of headmaster Dr W A Strange and cousins of the Swann’s. [See: obituaries, Abingdonian, vol. vi. p. 367 and NBH, 15th June 1928.]
DAVIS, David D (1857-?). Son of Gabriel Davis, merchant, East St Helen Steet, Abingdon. AS 1868-71. Left for school in Germany (1871). Student, King’s College, London (1877-79), medical department. Guardian, Harriet Davis, Shinfield Road, Reading (1879). LSA (1884 King’s College, London). LPCP (Edinburgh). LRCS (Edinburgh) and LM (1886). Went to South Africa (1900), died there. STRANGE (STRAINGE), Joseph. Son of Richard. Bennett Scholar (1745).
DAVIS, Edward H. Son of William H Davis, Bridge Street, Abingdon, auctioneer. AS 1861-64. Brother of WHD and ND. Cousins of DDD, OD, RD, WD, GD, LD and AR. Cousins of C Swann, HS and WS.
DAVIS, Frederick William (1860-?) . Son of William Davis, JP, Ulster Bank, Downpatrick. AS 1877-? In Holy Orders (1912)
DAVIS, Gabriel (1850-1928). Son of Gabriel Davis, merchant and maltster, East St Helen Street, Abingdon. AS 1861-63. Davis Engineering and Launch Company. Wharf House, Abingdon (1901). Resident, Long Alley Almshouses (1926-28). Abingdon Union Infirmary (1928). Went to stay with daughter, Guernsey (1928). Died, Guernsey.
DAVIS, John G (1840-1892) . Son of Gabriel Davis (1809-89), merchant, East St Helen Street, Abingdon. Son by his first marriage. Half-brother of Louis (and his five brothers). Father, Gabriel Davis (senior) went to stay at this son’s house, and died there (1889). John Davis died at The Laburnums, Littlemore (1892). AS 1850s. James Brooks, OA (1825-1901), church architect, restored Sandford-on-Thames church and Louis Davis designed east window for Littlemore church. Suggests the Davis’s local influence. [See: Abingdonian, vol. ix. pp. 114-15. A reminiscence of his uncle, headmaster Dr W A Strange and Abingdonian vol. ii. p. 137.]
DAVIS, Louis (1860-1941). Son of Gabriel Davis, merchant, East St Helen Street, Abingdon. AS 1870-? Lodging with James Vinnicombe, baker and confectioner, 1 Kenmont Terrace, London, Middlesex, described as artist decorative … painter (1881 census). [Fellow lodger, H G H D’Almaine (qv), solicitor’s articled clerk.] Book illustrator. Water colour artist. Stained-glass artist. Pupil of Christopher Whall (1849-1924). Last of the pre-Raphaelites. Davis’s most notable glass includes windows in Cheltenham College chapel; St Anselm’s church, Hatch End; the Order of the Thistle chapel, St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh; Benedicite windows, Dunblane Abbey; Littlemore church; Abingdon School chapel; Barton Hartshorn church; Rockbeare church, Devon and Foxley church, Wiltshire. Publications: Abingdon (1889) in The English Illustrated Magazine. The Goose Girl at the Well (A Fairy Play, 1906). A portfolio of ten drawings (1907). [See: Louis Davis 1860-1941 , Oxfordshire Local History Journal, 2006. Obituary, The Times, 23rd October 1941 and Abingdon Parish Magazine.]
DAVIS, Newton (1843-?). Son of William Henry Davis, gentleman, Sandford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. AS c.1852-1860 Scholar, Pembroke (1860). BA (1863).
DAVIS, Oliver, (1865-1927). Son of Gabriel Davis, merchant, Abingdon. AS 1875-80. To South Africa (1880). South African Mounted Police (1881-91). Served, First Boer War (1881). Secretary, Orange Free State Turf Club (1891). Championship amateur jockey in South Africa. Secretary, Durban turf club (1925). Killed in aeroplane accident Dundee, Durban. [See: obituary, Abingdonian, vol. vi. pp. 348-49.]
DAVIS, Richard (1849-?). Son of Galbriel Davis, merchant, East St Helen Street, Abingdon. AS 1860-? To Bristol. Became boat builder in Davis Engineering and Launch Company, Abingdon, the family business with brother, Gabriel Davis (jun).
DAVIS, Thomas. Son of Widow Davis. Bennett Scholar (1723).
DAVIS, Walter Goodwin (1916-?) . Son of Goodwin Julian Davis, Edgware, sales manager. AS 1931-33. Served, WW2. Lieutenant, Royal Fusiliers.
DAVIS, William (c.1840-1858) . Son of Gabriel Davis, merchant, East St Helen Street, Abingdon. Apprenticed with James Hands, miller, Deddington. Killed, thrown by a horse at Clifton, Deddington, 15th October, 1858. Buried, Abingdon, 21st October, 1858. [See: inquest report, Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 23rd October, 1858.]
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