Person Davis; Samuel (1760 - 1819) Davis Samuel 1760 - 1819 Male West Indies 1760 Birdhurst Lodge, near Croydon 16 June 1819

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 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. Fellow 28/06/1792 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 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 'Remarks on the Religious and Social Institutions of the Bouteas, or Inhabitants of Boutan' (1830) - 16 Jun 1819 NA2791 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 254b7310-c7b6-43de-b020-be1c00d7b50b