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Davey was the son of Peter Davey, of Horton, Buckinghamshire and Caroline Emma Pace, and was born on the 30th of August 1833 in Camberwell, Surrey.
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Davey was the son of Peter Davey, of Horton, Buckinghamshire and Caroline Emma Pace, and was born on the 30th of August 1833 in Camberwell, Surrey.
Horace Davey was educated at Rugby and University College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 20 March 1852.
He took a double first-class in classics and mathematics, was senior mathematical scholar and Eldon law scholar, and was elected a fellow of his college. Having achieved a BA (1856), and an MA (1859) Davey decided on a career in the law.
In 1861 he was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn, and read in the chambers of Mr (afterwards Vice-Chancellor) Wickens. Devoting himself to the Chancery side, he soon acquired a large practice, and in 1875 became a Q. C.
In 1880 he was returned to parliament as a Liberal for Christchurch, Hants, but lost his seat in 1885. On Gladstone’s return to power in 1886 he was appointed solicitor-general and was knighted, but had no seat in the House, being defeated at both Ipswich and Stockport in 1886; in 1888 he found a seat at Stockton-on-Tees, but was rejected by that constituency in 1892.
Horace Davey was standing counsel to the university of Oxford, and senior counsel to the Charity Commissioners, and was engaged in all the important Chancery suits of his time. In 1893 he was raised to the bench as a lord justice of appeal, and in the next year was made a lord of appeal in ordinary and a life peer as Baron Davey, of Fernhurst in the County of Sussex. Lord Davey’s great legal knowledge was displayed in his judgments no less than at the bar. In legislation he took no conspicuous part, but he was a keen promoter of the act passed in 1906 for the checking of gambling.
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Horace Davey got married in 1862. His wife was the daughter of John Donkin of Ormond House, Old Kent Road, a civil engineer. Horace had two sons and four daughters.