INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.
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Magistrate; Member, Bombay Corporation, and of its Standing Committee; Member, Bombay Improvement Trust. Address: 7, Elphinstone Road, Fort, Bombay, India.
David, Mr. W. O., Government Solicitor, and Notary Public, Madras; Partner, Messrs. David, Brightwell and Moresby, Madras; Government Solicitor, 1908. Address: Madras. Club, Madras.
Davids, J. W. Rhys, LL.D., P.H.D., Professor of Pali and Buddhist Literature, University College, London since 1882; b. at Colchester, 1843; s. of Rev I. W. Davids; educ; at Brighton School and Breslau University; entered Civil Service, Ceylon, 1866; Called to Bar (Middle Temple), 1877; delivered Hibbert Lectures, 1881; Professor of Comparative Religion, Manchester, since 1904; President, Pali Text Society; Fellow of the British Academy; Secretary and Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1885 1902; Was one of the founders of the British Academy, 1902; m. Caroline Augusta, d. of Rev. J. Foley, 1894,; Publications: Buddhism, 1878 (18th edition, 1899); Buddhist Birth Stories, vol. I, 1880; Ancient Coins and Measures of Ceylon, 1877; Buddhist Suttas from the Pali, 1881; Questions of King Milinda, 1890-94; American Lectures, 1896; Joint author of Vinaya Texts, 1881-85; Disha Nikaya, 1890 and 1902; Sumangala Vilasani, 1886; Sacred Books of the Buddhists; Dialogue of the Buddha, 1899; Buddhist India, 1902; Early Buddhism, 1908; Recreations: Golf. Clubs. Manchester, and Timperley. Address: Harboro Grange, Ashton-on-Mersey, Cheshire.
Davids, Mrs. Rhys M. A. (Carolin Augusta); d. of Rev. J. Foley: m. Professor Rhys Davids of the University College, London, 1894; Fellow of University College; London; Lecturer in Indian Philosophy, Manchester University. Publications: “A Manual of Buddhist Phychological Ethics”, “Buddhism, a study in the Buddhist North”, “Psalms of the Early Buddhists”. Address: Harboro Grange, Ashton-on-Mersery, Chesire.
Davidson, Colonel Sir Arthur, K.C.B. (1910), K.C.V.O. (1906), C.B. (1912), equerry in waiting to the king; s. of W. Davidson: educ: privately at Petersham: joined the 60th Rifles, 1876: served in Afghan war, 1878-80, at Kandahar and Ahmad Kheyl; A.D.C. to Sir Donald Stewart at Kabul; A.D.C. to Sir John Ross in Lord Roberts’ march from Kabul to Kandahar and the battle there; served in Marri expedition under General Macgregor; in Boer war with Natal Field Force, 1881 , and in Egyptian war, 1882; present at Tel-el-Kebir: served under Sir Charles Warren in Bechuanaland, 1884: A.D.C. to H. R. H. The Duke of Cambridge, 1890-5; Groom in-Waiting to Queen Victoria, 1896-96; accompanied Garter Mission to Tokio, 1906; has had many foreign honours conferred on him. Address, Red House, Warnham, Sussex. Marlborough House, Pall Mall, Bachelor’s, S.W. Clubs: Marlborough. Naval and Military, and United Service.
Davidson, Colonel John, C.B. (1902); s. of Alexander Davidson, M.D.; b. 1845; educ; at Winchester; entered the 21st Rcgt, 1863; transferred to I.S.C., (now Indian Army) 1866; Capt., 1875; Brevet Major, 1870; Lieut.-Col., 1889; Brevet Col,
