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| 26 Mar 2021 | |
| Written by Walter Murphy | |
| Of Interest |
Davis’s
Robert Furley Davis (1866 – 1937) was born in Nottingham, the son of a lace warehouseman. He was educated at Nottingham High School and Cambridge University, where he studied Classics. An organised, modest, incisive and witty individual, he arrived at Campbell in 1902 from Leamington College, and retired in 1931. Although of diminutive stature, he was a highly respected Classics teacher, who conveyed a passion for his subject. Although photographs do not show it, he had lost an eye, but he proved to another able ice-skater. Kenneth Armour aptly described his character as one of equanimities. He was in charge of the first Day boy House, founded in 1908. He died at his home in Wandsworth Road on the 14th of February 1937, and was honoured with an obituary in The Times.
From The Old Campbellian magazine 2005.
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