DAVIES, JOHN LLEWELLYN English divine and educationalist, was born at Chichester on Feb. 26, 1826. He was educated at Repton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was made a fellow in 185i. He was ordained in the same year, and held successively several London livings. He was given the crown living of Christ church, Marylebone in 1856, and in 1889 became vicar of Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland, where he remained until 19°8. Davies was closely associated with John Frederick Denison Maurice in the foundation of the Working Men's College (1854), where he taught for many years. He was elected to the first London school board in succession to Huxley, and from 1873-74 and 1878-86 was principal of Queen's College, Harley street, founded by Maurice in 1848 for the advancement of women's education. Davies was an advocate of the higher educa tion of women, a cause in which his sister, Sarah Emily Davies (q.v.), was also prominent, and favoured the granting to women of university degrees and the Parliamentary franchise. He died at Hampstead on May 17, 1916. With Vaughan he produced the well-known translation of Plato's Republic.