Background
He was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham and died in Hackney, London.
He was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham and died in Hackney, London.
Davies had a 50-years-long career as a club cricketer for Alexandra Park Cricket Club in North London and was reckoned in his obituary in Wisden Cricketers" Almanack to have made 64,000 runs, including 126 centuries, as a right-handed middle-order batsman and to have taken more than 5,000 wickets with left-arm orthodox spin. He became president of the Club Cricket Conference, the organisation for amateur cricket clubs. His first-class career was limited and was for the county of his birth, Warwickshire, with eight matches in four different seasons dotted across seven years.