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3 unusual facts about Henry William Carless Davis


Henry William Carless Davis

In 1913 he took the Chichele lectureship in foreign history and became a curator of the Bodleian Library in 1914.

The children were brought up by their mother, who moved to Weymouth in 1884 to open a school for young children including her own, and was successful enough to be appointed first headmistress of Weymouth College preparatory school in 1903.

Later that year, at the conclusion of the war, Davis served on the British delegation to the Paris Peace Conference between December 1918 and March 1919, and then spent a few weeks as the acting director of the Department of Overseas Trade at the invitation of Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland and in the New Years Honours of that year, Davis was made Commander of the British Empire.



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