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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.
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 may refer to: W. H. Davies (1871–1940), Welsh poet and writer William Henry Davies (entrepreneur) (1831–1921), English-born Canadian founder of the William Davies Company
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 H. Davies QC Bill Davies, was a Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia (BCSC), Canada, from 1982 until his retirement in 1999. [2] In 2007 he was appointed Commissioner of the Davies Commission Inquiry which investigated circumstances around the 1998 death by hypothermia of Frank Paul, a Mi'kmaq homeless man.
William Davies (master mariner) (1862–1936), sea captain and partner in Davies and Newman; W. H. Davies (William Henry Davies, 1871–1940), Welsh poet; William Llewelyn Davies (1887–1952), chief librarian of the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth; William David Davies (1897–1969), Welsh Presbyterian minister and theologian
William Watts Hart Davis (July 27, 1820 – December 26, 1910) was a brevetted Brigadier General of the United States Volunteers during the American Civil War.The rank was awarded to him on March 13, 1865, "for gallant and meritorious services, during operations against Charleston, South Carolina."
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