Horton Davies (1916–2005)

Horton Davies (1916-2004), D.D., D.Phil., D. Lit, Edinburgh and Oxford, ministered in London during the war, and founded the Religion Department at Grahamstown. South Africa (1946-1953). Invited, he first returned to Mansfield College, Oxford, to chair its Department of Ecclesiastical History and show more then to Princeton University's Religion Department until he retired in 1984. The author of some thirty-five books, including the six-volume Worship and Theology in England, for which he was given the prestigious Oxford D.Phil. degree, Dr. Davies started painting in his free moments, a hobby that he took up full time from 1984 to 2004. show less