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Authorised form of name	Davis; Samuel (1760 - 1819)
Dates	1760 - 1819
Place of birth	West Indies
Date of birth	1760
Place of death	Birdhurst Lodge, near Croydon
Date of death	16 June 1819
Activity	Career: Went to England with his mother and two sisters from the West Indies after the death of his father. Nominated as cadet for Madras by laurence Sullivan, a director of the East India Company (1778); selected by Warren Hastings to accompany a second mission to Bhutan and Tibet as draughtsman and surveyor, though was not allowed in by the court of the Panchen Lama. Member of the Court of Directors, HEIC
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	28/06/1792
Relationships	Father also John Davis, who held post of commisary-general in the West Indies, and his Welsh wife, nee Phillips; married Henrietta Boileau (August 1794); had four sons and seven daughters. Eldest son, Sir John Francis Davis (1795-1890) becamne the first Governor fo Hong Kong.
PublishedWorks	'Remarks on the Religious and Social Institutions of the Bouteas, or Inhabitants of Boutan' (1830)
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll References: R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the Colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 1. 1731-1847' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 307-332 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives his date of birth as 1760 in the West Indies
Code	NA2791

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RefNo	Title	Date
EC/1792/06	Davis, Samuel: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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