Background
The son of Doctor Thomas Davies, he was born in London 30 September 1818.
The son of Doctor Thomas Davies, he was born in London 30 September 1818.
After education at North End House School, Hampstead, he obtained a scholarship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1838, but migrated to Queens" College, and graduated Bachelor of Arts as thirty-first wrangler in 1842. In 1843 he took the degree of Bachelor of Medicine, was elected a Fellow of Queens" College in 1844, and graduated Doctor of Medicine He studied medicine in Paris, Vienna, and London.
In 1848. Davies was on 5 August 1845 elected assistant-physician to the London Hospital. In 1850 he was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1854 physician to the London Hospital, a post he held for twenty years. He lectured in the medical school there on materia medica, and then on medicine.
At Cambridge he was examiner for medical degrees and assessor to the regius professor of physic.
Davies lived in Finsbury Square, London, was physician to the Bank of England, and had a considerable practice. He died at Hampstead 4 January 1885, and was buried in the cemetery there.
Davies married Caroline Templar Wyatt on 24 August