Thomas Davis

Thomas Davis (15 February 1804 – 11 November 1887) was a Church of England clergyman, author and hymn writer. Life Family life The son of the Rev Richard Francis Davis DD (ca. 1766–1844), by his marriage to Sarah Stable, Davis was born at Worcester, where his father had been rector since 1795. Davis's grandfather was the "Mayor of Worcester, Thomas Davis, Esq." (d.1820) and is recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1788 as having "kissed the hand" of King George III at the Bishop's Palace, Worcester. Thomas Davis was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1832. He proceeded to Master of Arts. In 1833 Davis was ordained a priest and became his father's curate at Worcester, and in 1840 was appointed Vicar of Roundhay, Leeds in Yorkshire. Davis's father died at the age of 78 on Christmas Day, 1844, of "a violent cold".