Davidson
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).
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Davidson (GEORGE an American astronomer)
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.
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Davidson College
an educational institution in Davidson, N. C.; founded in 1837, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 16; students, 379; president, Wm. J. Martin, LL.D.
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Davies
SIR LOUIS HENRY, a Canadian lawyer. He was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, 1845; and was educated at Prince of Wales College. He became a barrister in 1867; Solicitor-General, 1869 and 1871-1872; Leader of the Opposition, 1873-1876; Premier and Attorney-General, Prince Edward Island, 1876-1879; and Q. C., 1880. In 1882 he was elected to the Dominion House of Commons, and was re-elected until his appointment to Appeal Court. He was counsel for Great Britain before the International Fisheries Arbitration at Halifax in 1877 between Great Britain and the United States. He became P. C., Canada, in 1896; Joint Delegate to Washington with Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 1897, on Behring Sea seal question; one of Joint High Commissioners in 1898 for settlement of differences between United States and Canada; Minister of Marine and Fisheries, Canada, 1896-1901. From 1918 he was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (Appeal).
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Davies (ARTHUR B an American painter)
ARTHUR B., an American painter, born in Utica, N. Y., in 1862. He began his work as an illustrator of magazines. He first achieved fame as a painter at an exhibition held in New York in 1899. His best paintings are found in the Brooklyn Museum. Among these is the "Children of Yesteryear," considered by many to be his best work. Among his other masterpieces are "The Girdle of Ares," (1914); "Visions of the Sea" (1911); "The Hunter of the Star Lands". His recent paintings show a decided cubist tendency.
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Davies (RANDALL an English author born)
RANDALL, an English author, born in 1866, and educated at Bradfield (Founder's Boy) and Scoones'. He was for a time Art Critic to the "Academy", "Westminster Gazette", "New Statesman," and "Queen," and also reviewed for the "Burlington," "Athenæum," "Saturday Review" and other periodicals. He qualified as a Solicitor in 1898, and later came to the United States where he was for some years Confidential Secretary to Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York "World." His works include: "Chelsea Old Church"; "Portfolio Monograph"; "Six Centuries of Painting"; "Stories of the English Artists"; "The Greatest House at Chelsea"; "A Lyttel Booke of Nonsense"; "Monographs on Velasquez, Reynolds, and Romney."
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Davies, Lady
Eleanor Tuchet, daughter of George, Lord Audley, married Sir John Davies, an eminent lawyer in the time of James the First, and author of a poem of considerable merit on the Immortality of the Soul. This lady was a person of many talents; but what she seems most to have valued herself upon, was her gift of prophecy; and she accordingly printed a book of Strange and Wonderful Predictions. She professed to receive her prophecies from a spirit, who communicated to her audibly things about to come to pass, though the voice could be heard by no other person. Sir John Davies was nominated lord chief justice of the king's bench in 1626. Before he was inducted into the office, lady Eleanor, sitting with him on Sunday at dinner, suddenly burst into a passion of tears. Sir John asked her what made her weep. To which she replied "These are your funeral tears." Sir John turned off the prediction with a merry answer. But in a very few days he was seized with an apoplexy, of which he presently died. She also predicted the death of the duke of Buckingham in the same year. For this assumption of the gift of prophecy, she was cited before the high-commission-court and examined in 1634. Dee, John
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Davis
CHARLES HENRY, an American mathematician; born in Boston, Jan. 16, 1807. He entered the United States navy in 1823, and was commissioned commander in 1854. He made several coast-surveys, partly in conjunction with Prof. A. D. Bache, and partly with others. He wrote "Memoir upon the Geological Action of the Tidal and other Currents of the Ocean," and "The Law of Deposit of the Flood Tide." He was also one of the founders of the "American Nautical Almanac." He died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 18, 1877.
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