Career
Davies was a Jew born in London, England. He was transported to Hobart, Australia as a convict in August 1831, for ordering candles on someone else"s accountant His father had been transported to New South Wales only a few years before.
On 5 July 1854 he and Auber George Jones, a Tasmanian pastoralist, published the first edition of The Mercury.
He caught a chill from which he died on 11 June 1872. Davies" son John played first-class cricket for Tasmania and was thrice Mayor of Hobart.
