Davidson
Davidson names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Davidson RANDALL THOMAS, Archbishop of Canterbury
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RANDALL THOMAS, Archbishop of Canterbury. He was born in 1848, and was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford. He was curate of Dartford, Kent, 1874-1877; chaplain and private secretary to Archbishop Tait of Canterbury, 1877-1882; to Archbishop Berson, 1882-1883; examining chaplain to Bishop Lightfoot of Durham, 1881-1883; sub-almoner to Queen Victoria, 1882; one of the six preachers of Canterbury Cathedral, 1880-1883; Dean of Windsor mestic chaplain to Queen Victoria 1883and do- 1891; Clerk of the Closet to Queen Victoria, 189 1891-1901, and to King Edward, 1901-1903. In 1891 he became bishop of Rochester and continued in that position till 1895. He was bishop of Winchester, 1895-1903. In this last year he became archbishop of Canterbury. He has been trustee of the British Museum from 1884 and was prelate of the Order of the Garter, 1895-1903. He was created G. C. V. O. 1904, and received Royal Victorian Chain, 1911. In 1918 he received the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Saviour (Greece); and in 1919 the Grand Cordon de l'ordre de la Couronne (Belgium); also the First Class of the Order of St. Sava (Serbia).
Davidson GEORGE, an American astronomer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE, an American astronomer; born in Nottingham, England, May 9, 1825; came to the United States in 1832; graduated at the Central High School, Philadelphia, in 1845; and joined the United States Coast Survey. While in this service he was chief engineer of a party which surveyed a ship-canal route across the Isthmus of Darien. He also made a geographical survey of the coast of Alaska in 1867. In 1874 he had .charge rge of the party which went from the United States to Japan to make observations the on transit of Venus. He traveled extensively in Egypt, China, India, and Europe, for purposes of 1877-1884 he was Regent of the Uniscientific study. From versity of California, and for many years was President of the California Academy of Sciences. He retired from the Coast Survey, after 50 years of distinguished service, in 1895, and became Professor of Geography in the University of California. He is the author of numerous works on irrigation, harbor and river improvements, "Francis Drake" (1908), etc. He died in 1911.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote about Randall Davidson in 1921 in the present tense, mid-primacy; he went on to serve until 1928, when he became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in modern times to resign the see rather than die in office, was created Baron Davidson of Lambeth, and died in 1930 after a record 25 years at Canterbury. His term is now remembered chiefly for steering the Church of England through the First World War and for the 1927-28 Prayer Book crisis, when Parliament twice rejected the revised book his bench of bishops had sponsored. The astronomer George Davidson, correctly noted as having died in 1911, has since had his name attached to San Francisco's highest point, Mount Davidson, and to the Davidson Seamount, an undersea volcano off the California coast that is now a protected part of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
Written for this edition, 2026.