John Davies

 

1744-1817.  Vice-Master; botanist.

Sculpture inscription Translation

M.S. JOANNIS DAVIES S.T.B.

IN SOCIUM ELECTI ANNO CHRISTI 1766
IN VICE-MAGISTRUM ______ 1797
IN SCHOLA WESTMONASTERIENSI
DOCTRINÆ PRIMORDIIS LIBERALIS INSTITUTUS MATURIORE ÆTATE BOTANICES INDAGATIONI AMORE PROPRIORE INCUBUIT;
ITA TAMEN UT AMPLIORIBUS STUDIIS
MAJORISQUE PONDERIS NIHILOMINUS VACARET
ET AD EA JUDICIUM ACRE ET CERTUM ADHIBERET.
TANTA IDEM MORUM SUAVITATE FUIT
INGENIOQUE TAM FACILI ET CANDIDO
UT, OMNIUM BENEVOLENTIA SIBI CONCILIATA,
AMICIS SUIS SE UNICE COMMENDARET,
OBIIT 1o FEBI DIE, ANNO ÆTATIS SUÆ 74, CHRISTI 1817. 

IN CANCELLO SANCTI MICHAELIS ECCLESIÆ, APUD CANTABRIGIAM, RESTAT QUOD MORTALE EST
VIRI HUJUSCE QUAM MAXIME DESIDERATI;
CÆTERA DEO DEBENTUR.
 Sacred to the memory of John Davies, B.D., elected a Fellow in 1766 and Vice-Master in 1797.  Having acquired the elements of the Liberal Arts while at Westminster School, when he was older he developed his own love for botanical research, nevertheless leaving himself time for less specialised and more weighty subjects, to which he brought a keen and sure judgement.  He was a man of such charming manners and such an easy and open character that he enjoyed the goodwill of all and uncommon devotion from his friends.  He died at the age of seventy-three on 1st February 1817.  The mortal remains of this greatly mourned man rest in the chancel of St Michael’s Church, Cambridge; the rest is owed to God.

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