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William Henry Davies (3 July 1871 [a] – 26 September 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer, who spent much of his life as a tramp or hobo in the United Kingdom and the United States, yet became one of the most popular poets of his time. His themes included observations on life's hardships, the ways the human condition is reflected in nature, his ...
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W. H. Davies (1871–1940). A large part of the book's subject matter describes the way of life of the tramp in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States in the final decade of the 19th century.
William Henry Davies (23 June 1831 – 21 April 1921) was a British-born Canadian businessman who established a company that packed and shipped salt pork from Toronto to the United Kingdom. The William Davies Company grew to be the largest pork packer in the British Empire, giving Toronto its nickname of "Hogtown", and introducing peameal bacon.
William Henry Davies may refer to: W. H. Davies (1871–1940), Welsh poet and writer; William Henry Davies (entrepreneur) (1831–1921), English-born Canadian founder ...
In his 1963 Critical Biography of Davies, Richard J. Stonesifer traces the origins of the poem back to the sonnet "The World Is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth, saying: "But he went to school with Wordsworth's sonnet "The world is too much with us", and echoes from that sonnet resound throughout his work as from few other poems.
William Henry Davies (entrepreneur) (1831–1921), Canadian pork packer; William W. Davies (1833–1906), leader of a schismatic Latter Day Saint group in Washington, United States; William Davies (master mariner) (1862–1936), sea captain and partner in Davies and Newman; W. H. Davies (William Henry Davies, 1871–1940), Welsh poet
It was founded at its current location in 1856, as the Pictou Iron Foundry, by William Henry Davies. [2] Through many business booms and busts, as well as several changes of ownership, it has continued to operate until today, when it is owned by Aecon Atlantic Industrial Inc. [3]
William Henry Davies (January/March 1854 [1] – 14 November 1916) was a Welsh amateur footballer who made four appearances for the Wales national football team in the 1870s and 1880s, and scored his country's first international goal.