Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Davis, (Sir) John

by Joseph Foster

Davis, (Sir) John, of Wilts. Queen's Coll., matric. 15 Oct., 1585, aged 15 (as 'Gen. Cond.'); B.A. from Magdalen Coll. 9 July, 1590, 'poet,' bar.-at-law, Middle Temple, 1595 (as son of John, of Tisbury, Wilts), knighted by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 18 Dec., 1603, M.P. Newcastle-under-Lyne 1621-2, serjeant-at-law 1606, king's serjeant 1612, and justice of Assize, speaker of the Irish House of Commons, nominated lord chief justice king's bench, Ireland, but died suddenly in London (before his patent was completed) 7 Dec., 1626, monument in St. Martin'sin-the-Fields, brother of Matthew 1586. See also Thomas 1545; Ath. Ox., ii. 400-6; & Foster's Judges and Barristers; & D.N.B.