Background
Davey was born at Double Bay, Sydney to English-born law clerk Joseph Innes Davey and his wife, Caroline (née Hurley).
Davey was born at Double Bay, Sydney to English-born law clerk Joseph Innes Davey and his wife, Caroline (née Hurley).
University of Sydney.
After graduating, he became an assistant construction engineer, working on the Woronora Dam for the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board. He later began his own Queensland business manufacturing roofing tiles. In 1933 he was in charge of mill installation at Portuguese Kembla for Australian Iron and Steel Limited and then worked in Papua and Tasmania.
In 1946 he contested the Australian House of Representatives, running unsuccessfully for the Liberal Party in Hume.
One of the founders of the Association of Consulting Engineers, he was its president from 1956 to 1957 and a councillor of the Institution of Engineers in 1962 and 1964-1965. In 1966 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Davey had been appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of Street Gregory the Great in 1960, and worked as an advisor to the Sydney Catholic schools system and a director of Street Vincent"s Hospital, as well as the Mater Misericordiae Hospital and The Catholic Weekly.
He retired from his firm in 1964, becoming executive director of the Sydney Catholic Schools Building and Finance Commission. He was sent to Strathfield as a curate.