Davies , Arthur Templar , 1858-1929 , physician

Arthur Templar Davies, MD, FRCP (1858-1929), was a physician specialising in diseases of the chest. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. For most of his career he was associated with the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, London, at which his father Herbert Davies and grandfather Thomas Davies had both been Physician. He also served as Physician to the Bank of England, succeeding his father again, and Physician (in London) to the Royal Ventnor Hospital. During the First World War he was a member of staff of the Hospital for Officers at Fishmongers' Hall, London. His publications included editing Mechanisms of the Circulation through Diseased Hearts, by his father Dr Herbert Davies. Davies' career is summarised in Lives of the fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1826-1925 by G.H. Brown (London: Royal College of Physicians, 1955) (Munk's Roll, volume IV).