The son of the seventh baronet (d. 1792); educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, he was High Sheriff of Devon in 1802.

REFERENCES TO Sir John Davie, eighth baronet:

Maria Copley to Thomas Creevey, 6 March 1823 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 11 March 1823 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)