Rev. Sneyd Davies

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.

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Rev. Sneyd Davies:

1.	1786  Anna Seward to George Hardinge, 23 October 1786; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:194-95.
2.	1800  Robert Southey, 1800 ca.; Common-Place Book (1849-51) 4:350.
3.	1830  William Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830; in Critical Opinions, ed. Peacock (1950) 241.
4.	1830  Samuel Egerton Brydges, in "Essay on the Genius of Collins, Poetical Works of Collins (1830; 1865) lxvii.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Rev. Sneyd Davies:

1.	1780  John Nichols, in Select Collection of Poems with Notes Biographical and Historical (1780-82) 6:114; 8:307.
2.	1782  Isaac Reed, in Dodsley, Collection of Poems (1782) 5:103n.
3.	1789  Anonymous, in Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry (1789-97) 1:173.
4.	1807  Samuel Egerton Brydges, "Dr. Sneyd Davies" Censura Literaria 3 (1807) 329-30.
5.	1812  Alexander Chalmers, in General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17) 18:319-20.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1740 ca.  Rev. John Whaley:   Sneyd Davies, "To Mr. Whalley. Imitation of Horace, Book I. Epist. X" 1740 ca.; Nichols, Select Collection of Poems (1780-82) 6:129-31.
2.	1742  Richard Owen Cambridge:   Sneyd Davies, in "Voyage to Tintern Abbey" 1742; Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 1:595.
3.	1745  John Milton:   Sneyd Davies, "Rhapsody, to Milton" in Collection of Original Poems and Translations. By John Whaley (1745) 182-86.
4.	1766  William Camden:   Sneyd Davies, "Verses address'd to old Camden's Picture, at Lord Camden's, in Kent" Lloyd's Evening Post (23 April 1766) 387.