John Davis

(1774-1854)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Davis, John, 1774-1854 LBT ID: JoDavis1854 VIAF ID: 42682091 LOC ID: n85008389	B/BAP: 1774 DIED: 1854
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Born in Salisbury, he was a seaman, biographer, and miscellaneous writer; Robert Southey, who knew him, commented “that however much adversity had quickened his talents, it had injured his moral feelings.”
REFERENCES TO John Davis: Robert Southey to Messrs. Longman and Rees, 26 January 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 14 March 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 5 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. X. 1804