The son of a clergyman, Sneyd Davies was educated at Eton (1724-29) before being admitted as a scholar to King's College Cambridge (B.A. 1732, Fellow 1732, M.A. 1737, D.D. 1759). He was chaplain to Cornwallis, Bishop of Lichfield, was Canon and Master of St. John's Hospital, Rector of Kingsland, Hereford (1732) and Archdeacon of Derby (1755-69). With Thomas Seward, father of Anna, he was a canon of Lichfield Cathedral. There is an extensive memoir by George Hardinge in John Nichols's Illustrations (1817-58).
TEXT RECORDS:
1739Epithalamium. John Dodd, Esq; and Miss St. Leger.
1745To the Spring.
1745Vacuna.
PUBLICATIONS:
Poems in A collection of poems [by John Whaley]. 1732.
Poems in A collection of original poems and translations [by John Whaley]. 1745.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
Anglican
Eton College
King's College Cambridge
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts
Doctor of Divinity
College Fellow
clergyman
Derby Cathedral
Prebendary of Lichfield
Lichfield Cathedral
poet
translator
Richard Owen Cambridge
William Duncombe
Horace Walpole
Rev. John Whaley
REFERENCE:
DNB; NCBEL.
Robert Dodsley, Collection of Poems (1748-58); John Nichols, Select Collection of Poems (1780-82); Bell's Fugitive Poetry (1789-97) 1:173; Censura Literaria 3 (1807) 329-30; Alexander Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17) [portrait]; George Hardinge, memoir and letters of Davies in Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 1:485-709, 3:138-44; Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1882) 1:482; Venn and Venn, Alum. Cant. (1922-27); Eton College Register, 1698-1752 (1927); Fairchild, in Religious Trends in English Poetry (1939); Michael F. Suarez, ed., Dodsley, Collection of Poems (1997) 1:140-41.
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