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Charles Maurice Davies was born in 1828.
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He became a fellow of Durham University in 1849. In 1851 he was ordained a deacon, and in 1852 was ordained a priest. He served as a curate in various parishes.
On 28 February 1855 Davies and five other Anglican clergy met at the House of Charity, Rose Street, Soho, London, and founded the Anglo-Catholic Society of the Holy Cross.
Davies at that time was curate of Street Matthew"s, City Road, in London. The leader of the group was Charles Lowder.
The other founders were David Nicols, Alfred Poole, Joseph Newton Smith and Henry Augustus Rawes. In his later years Davies identified himself as a "broad churchman" and thought the church should tolerate a wide range of beliefs and practices.
Davies married, and in 1856 the couple moved to Paris where he taught Classics and Modern English.
From 1861 to 1868 Davies was headmaster of the West London Collegiate School. In his later career Davies was a journalist rather than a minister. In 1875 Davies was briefly lecturer at the church of Street George-in-the-East in Stepney.
In 1881 he called himself "a Sunday Evening Lecturer at Chelsea Parish Church", but he left holy orders after 1882.
Charles Maurice Davies died in 1910. Journalism
Miscellaneous.
