{{short description|British expert on heraldry}} {{Use British English|date=April 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Arthur Charles Fox-Davies | image = Fox-Davies.png | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1871|2|28}} | birth_place = Bristol, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1928|5|19|1871|2|28}} | death_place = London, England | other_names = | occupation = {{hlist|Author|barrister}} | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = ''Complete Guide to Heraldry'' (1909) }}

'''Arthur Charles Fox-Davies''' (28 February 1871 – 19 May 1928) was a British expert on heraldry.{{Sfn|''International Who's Who'',|1912|pp=474–475}} His ''Complete Guide to Heraldry'', published in 1909, has become a standard work on heraldry in England. A barrister by profession, Fox-Davies worked on several notable cases involving the peerage, and also worked as a journalist and novelist.{{Sfn|Obituary, ''Times'', May 21,|1928|p=22}}{{Refn|group=lower-alpha|Quoted: {{cite book |date=1929 |title=''"Fox-Davies" →'' Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentleman of Coat-Armour |url=https://archive.org/details/armorialfamilies01foxd/page/716/mode/2up?view=theater |edition=7th |volume=1 (of 2) |page=716 |location=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett, Ltd. |via=Internet Archive (Boston Public Library) }} }}{{Sfn|''Who Was Who'', Vol. 2,|1967|p=375}}

==Biography== thumb|left|Fox-Davies's arms, as illustrated in his ''Complete Guide to Heraldry'' Arthur Charles Davies (known as Charlie) was born in Bristol, the second son of Thomas Edmond Davies (1839–1908) and his wife Maria Jane Fox, the daughter and co-heiress of alderman John Fox, JP.{{Sfn|Fox-Davies, ''Armorial Families'',|1929|p=716}} Fox-Davies was brought up from the early 1880s at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, where his father worked for the Coalbrookdale Iron Company{{Sfn|Lattimore,|2012|p=}} and had a house called "Paradise" which became his home in much of his adult life;{{Sfn|Dickins,|1987|pp=32, 94}} his grandfather, Charles Davies of Cardigan in Wales, had been an ironmonger.{{Sfn|Lattimore,|2012|p=}} He added his mother's maiden name to his own by deed poll on his nineteenth birthday in 1890, thereby changing his surname from Davies to Fox-Davies. In 1894, his father took the same course for himself and the rest of the family.{{Sfn|Fox-Davies, ''Armorial Families'',|1929|p=716}}

Fox-Davies attended Ackworth School in Yorkshire, but was expelled in 1884 at the age of fourteen, after hitting one of the schoolmasters.{{Sfn|Lattimore,|2012|p=}} He received no further formal education, but was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1901 and called to the bar in 1906.{{Sfn|''Who Was Who'', Vol. 2,|1967|p=375}} As a barrister, he practised on the South Eastern Circuit, at the Old Bailey, and at the Surrey and South London Sessions.{{Sfn|''Who Was Who'', Vol. 2,|1967|p=375}} He also prepared printed cases for peerage cases in the House of Lords.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

He married in 1901 Mary Ellen Blanche Crookes (1870–1935), daughter and coheiress of Septimus Wilkinson Crookes and Anne Blanche Harriet Proctor.{{Sfn|Fox-Davies, ''Armorial Families'',|1929|p=716}} They had a son, Harley Edmond Fitzroy Fox-Davies (1907–1941), and a daughter, Moyra de Somery Regan.{{Sfn|Fox-Davies, ''Armorial Families'',|1929|p=716}} His wife worked as an heraldic artist, often for her husband's publications, under the pseudonym "C. Helard".{{Sfn|Lattimore,|2012|p=}}

Neither the Fox nor the Davies families were armigerous, so in 1905, when Fox-Davies was 34 and already well-advanced in his career as a writer on heraldic and genealogical subjects, he organised posthumous grants of arms to both his grandfathers. The arms granted to Charles Davies were ''sable, a demi sun in splendour issuant in base or, a chief dancetée of the last'', with, for crest, "a demi dragon rampant gules collared or, holding in the dexter claw a hammer proper"; those granted to John Fox were "per pale argent and gules, three foxes sejant counterchanged", with, for crest, ''a demi stag winged gules collared argent''.{{Sfn|Lattimore,|2012|p=}}

Fox-Davies bore the Davies arms with a crescent for cadency, and intended to quarter them with the Fox arms after his mother's death; but as she outlived him, dying in 1937, this was not possible.{{Sfn|Lattimore,|2012|p=}} He also considered obtaining grants to his wife's families of Crookes and Proctor, which would have entitled his children to additional quarterings, but at this point he no longer had the money for further grants of arms.{{Sfn|Lattimore,|2012|p=}} He did obtain, in 1921, the grant of a badge, which consisted of a ''crown vallary gules''.{{Sfn|Fox-Davies, ''Armorial Families'',|1929|p=716}} His motto was ''Da Fydd'', Welsh for "good faith" and a pun on the name Davies.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

In addition to his writings on heraldry, he published a number of works of fiction, including detective stories such as ''The Dangerville Inheritance'' (1907), ''The Mauleverer Murders'' (1907) and ''The Duplicate Death'' (1910).{{Sfn|Dickins,|1987|p=32}} He authored the article on "Heraldry" in the ''Catholic Encyclopedia''.{{Sfn|''Catholic Encyclopedia'',|1917|p=60}}

Politically Conservative, Fox-Davies "quite hopelessly" stood for election as a member of parliament for Merthyr Tydfil in 1910, 1923 and 1924.{{Sfn|''Who Was Who'', Vol. 2,|1967|p=375}} He was, however, elected as a member of Holborn Borough Council in London.{{Sfn|Obituary, ''Times'', May 21,|1928|p=22}}{{Sfn|''Who Was Who'', Vol. 2,|1967|p=375}}

Fox-Davies lived at 65 Warwick Gardens in Kensington, London, and had chambers at 23, Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn. He died, aged 57, of portal hypertension and cirrhosis of the liver, having lain ill in his home for several weeks.{{Sfn|Lattimore,|2012|p=}} He was buried at the parish church of Holy Trinity in Coalbrookdale.{{Sfn|Dickins,|1987|pp=32, 94}}

==Heraldic writings== thumb|The Royal Arms as depicted in ''The Art of Heraldry'' Fox-Davies's writing on heraldry is characterised by a passionate attachment to heraldry as art and history and also as law. He was something of a polemicist, and issued one of his most controversial works, ''The Right to Bear Arms'', under the pseudonym ''X''. However, he always supported his arguments with specific historical and manuscript evidence.

He was the editor of the ''Genealogical Magazine'' from 1895 to 1906.{{Sfn|Lattimore,|2012|p=}}

He conducted a lifelong campaign against the bearing of coats of arms without lawful authority in accordance with the Law of Arms, whether that authority was a right recognised at the visitations conducted by heralds in the 16th and 17th centuries or, more commonly, a right deriving from a specific grant entered in the records of the College of Arms. In support of this campaign, he produced a directory which attempted to list all living bearers of arms in England and Wales who could prove such authority, under the title ''Armorial Families''. This served as an incentive to families who had not got such authority to regularise their position at the College of Arms and the size of the work increased considerably until its final edition in 1929, which remains the most comprehensive published record (the records of the College of Arms being largely unpublished) of post-Victorian heraldry in Britain. Many of the arms were illustrated with specially commissioned heraldic drawings, and Fox-Davies drew on this large resource when illustrating his more systematic treatises on heraldry.

The most lavish of these was ''The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopædia of Armory'', which was originally conceived as an English translation of a German publication (Ströhl's ''Heraldischer Atlas'') but which was transformed, in Fox-Davies's hands, into a largely original work specifically directed to the history, theory and practice of English heraldry, with illustrations in black and white and in colour throughout. This large 500-page book was first published in 1904 and was re-issued in black and white only in 1976 by an American publisher and in 1986 in colour by a London publisher. Much of the material in this book was re-used in a shorter, cheaper and more popular exposition of contemporary English heraldic practice, ''A Complete Guide to Heraldry'', which proved very successful and influential. This too has been reprinted several times. Even the still shorter ''Heraldry Explained'' balanced a clear and didactic text with plentiful illustration.

Fox-Davies's emphasis on practical and officially authorised heraldry caused him to showcase mostly recent grants of arms. This was in contrast to the medieval emphasis of other scholars, of whom his most prominent critics were Oswald Barron, author of the celebrated article on heraldry in the 1911 edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', and Horace Round.

Round, in an essay called "Heraldry and the Gent" (eventually published in his collection ''Peerage and Pedigree''), ridiculed another thesis with which Fox-Davies was particularly associated, namely, that an English grant of arms was equivalent to a continental patent of nobility, and that, not only were all English armigers to that extent noblemen as well as gentlemen (if male), but that no one without an official right to bear a coat of arms could claim to be a gentleman at all.{{Sfn|Round, Vol. 1,|1910|pp=307–384}}

Fox-Davies's influence on English heraldry continued long after his death in 1928, not least because of his lawyerly insistence on backing his opinions with solid evidence, and because of the continuing popularity of his books with the general public and with expert heraldists alike. One of his admirers in the next generation was John Brooke-Little, Norroy and Ulster King of Arms and founder of the Heraldry Society, who edited a new edition of ''The Complete Guide to Heraldry'' and in many ways propagated similar, albeit somewhat less aggressively expressed, ideas.

Fox-Davies never served as a herald or pursuivant at the College of Arms, but he was one of the 250 Gold Staff Officers who assisted at the coronation of King George V.{{Sfn|''Who Was Who'', Vol. 2,|1967|p=375}}

===Publications=== {{hanging indent |text='''As editor'''}} ---- {{refbegin|100em|indent=}}

* {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |date= |title=Fairbairn's Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland |location=Edinburgh |publisher=T.C. & E.C. Jack |language=en}} Retrieved March 7, 2025.}} <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> {{hanging indent |text="Revised and Brought Down to the Present Date by Author Charles Fox-Davies".}} <li>{{cite book |date=1892 |title=''Vol 1'' |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924092524473&seq=11 |via=HathiTrust Cornell }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |date=1892 |title=''Vol 2'' |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924092524481&seq=9 |via=HathiTrust Cornell }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

* {{hanging indent |text=''Dod's Peerage''.}} * {{hanging indent |text=''Burke's Landed Gentry''.}} * {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |date=1897–1904 |title=Genealogical Magazine: A Journal of Family History, Heraldry, and Pedigrees |type=monthly |location=London |publisher=Elliot Stock |series=Vol. 1 (May 1897) thru Vol. 8 (July 1904)}} {{OCLC|1125387825|show=all}}.}} <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |date=1898 |title=''Vol. 1'' |url=https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmaga01lond/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |via=Internet Archive (Harold B. Lee Library) }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |date=1899 |title=''Vol. 2'' |url=https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmaga02lond/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |via=Internet Archive (Harold B. Lee Library) }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |date=1900 |title=''Vol. 3'' |url=https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmaga3189unse/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |via=Internet Archive (Allen County) }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |date=1901 |title=''Vol. 4'' |url=https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmaga04lond/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater |via=Internet Archive (Allen County) }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |date=1902 |title=''Vol. 5'' |url=https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmaga5190unse/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater |via=Internet Archive (Allen County) }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |date=1903 |title=''Vol. 6'' |url=https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmaga6190unse/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater |via=Internet Archive (Allen County) }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |date=1904 |title=''Vol. 7'' |url={{GBurl |2A5BAQAAMAAJ|pg=PA569}} |via=Google Books (Cal Berkeley) }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |date=1904 |title=''Vol. 8'' |url={{GBurl |2A5BAQAAMAAJ|pg=RA1-PP3}} |via=Google Books (Cal Berkeley) }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

* {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |date=1913 |title=The Book of Public Speaking |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009393430 |location=London |publisher=Caxton Publishing Company |type=7 Vols. |via=HathiTrust }} }} {{refend}}

{{hanging indent |text='''As author'''}} ---- {{refbegin|100em|indent=}} * {{cite book |title=Armorial Families }} {{OCLC|3588083|show=all}}. <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> {{hanging indent |text=↓ Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, publisher. Thomas Chater Jack (1863–1939) and Edwin Chisholm Jack (1864–1939) (husband of Louey Chisholm; 1863–1948), sons of Thomas Chisholm Jack (1830–1886), the publishing firm's founder.}} <li>{{cite book |title='''''1895. 1st ed. Sub-title:''''' A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show Which Arms in Use at the Moment Are Borne by Legal Authority |url=https://archive.org/details/familiesarmorial00foxdrich/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater}}</li> <ol type="a" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''HathiTrust'' |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2740829&seq=9 |type=Cal Berkeley }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |title=''HathiTrust'' |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t0bv81w2k&seq=9 |type=Cornell }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via Internet Archive'' |url=https://archive.org/details/armorialfamilies00infoxd/page/n9/mode/2up?view=theater |type=Allen County Public Library }} {{free access}}</li></ol>

<li>{{cite book |title='''''1899. 3rd ed. Sub-title:''''' A Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, Showing which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority }} <ol type="a" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via HathiTrust'' |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2525606&seq=90 |type=Cal Berkeley }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via Internet Archive'' |url=https://archive.org/details/familiesarmorial00foxdrich/page/46/mode/2up?view=theater |type=Cal Berkeley }} {{free access}}</li></ol>

<li>{{cite book |title='''''1902. 4th ed. Sub-title:''''' A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, Showing Which Arms in Use at the Moment Are Borne by Legal Authority }} <ol type="a" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via Google Books'' |url={{GBurl |Ag_T4xSCw-oC |pg=PP7}} |type=Yale }} {{free access}}</li></ol>

<li>{{cite book |title='''''1905. 5th ed. Sub-title:''''' A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour }} <ol type="a" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via HathiTrust'' |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t4pk0d71j&seq=11 |type=Cal Berkeley }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via HathiTrust'' |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$c247556&seq=13 |type=Cal Berkeley }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via Wikimedia Commons'' |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AArmorial_families_-_a_directory_of_gentlemen_of_coat-armour_(IA_armorialfamilies00foxdrich).pdf&page=11 |type=Cal Berkeley }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |title=''See images at Wikimedia Commons'' |type=Boston Public Library }} {{free access}}</li></ol> <li>{{cite book |title='''''1910. 6th ed. Sub-title:''''' A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour}} <ol type="a" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via HathiTrust'' |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858028062754&seq=5 |type=Getty Research Institute }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via Google Books'' |url={{GBurl |M2VHAQAAMAAJ |pg=PR3}} |type=Iowa }} {{free access}}</li></ol>

{{hanging indent |text=↓ London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., publisher.}} <li>{{cite book |title='''''1929. 7th ed. Sub-title:''''' A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour}}</li> <ol type="a" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''Vol. 1: Via Internet Archive'' |url=https://archive.org/details/armorialfamilies01foxd/page/n9/mode/2up?view=theater |type=Boston Public Library }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |title=''Vol. 2: Via Internet Archive'' |url=https://archive.org/details/armorialfamilies02foxd/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater |type=Boston Public Library }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |title=''Vol. 1: Via HathiTrust'' |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015020753805&seq=5 |type=Michigan }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |title=''Vol. 2: Via HathiTrust'' |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015028519703&seq=5 |type=Michigan }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol></ol> * {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |date=1915 |orig-date=1894 |title=The Book of Public Arms – A Clopædia of the Armorial Bearings, Heraldic Devices, and Seals, as Authorised and as Used, of the Counties, Cities, Towns, and Universities of the United Kingdom |location=Edinburgh |publisher=T.C. & E.C. Jack }} Retrieved March 18, 2025. {{OCLC|3588161|show=all}}.}} <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |date=1894 |title=''Via Internet Archive'' |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029798893/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater |type=Cornell }} {{free access}}</li> {{hanging indent |text='''1915 variant title''': ''The Book of Public Arms – A Complete Encyclopædia of all Royal, Territorial, Municipal, Corporate, Official, and Impersonal Arms.''}} <li>{{cite book |date=1915 |title=''Via Google Books'' |url={{GBurl|aDeNMF1DHEkC |pg=PR3}} |type=Minnesota |edition=new }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

* {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |date=1904 |title=The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopædia of Armory |url=https://archive.org/details/familiesarmorial00foxdrich/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |location=Edinburgh |publisher=T.C. & E.C. Jack |language=en}} Retrieved March 7, 2025. {{LCCN|04012432}}, {{LCCN|58053048}}; {{OCLC|3588106|show=all}}.}} ::''See The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopædia of Armory'' <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Fox-Davies, ''Art of Heraldry,|1904|loc=Plate 4}} |title=''Via Internet Archive'' |url=https://archive.org/details/artofheraldryenc00foxd/page/n34/mode/1up?view=theater |series=Plate 4 (between pages 16 & 17) |type=Boston }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via Google Books'' |url={{GBurl|rfhYAAAAYAAJ |pg=PA16-IA1}} |series=Plate 4 (between pages 16 & 17) |type=Princeton }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

* {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Fox-Davies & Carlyon-Britton,|1906|p=}} |date=1906 |last1=Fox-Davies |first1=Arthur Charles |last2=Carlyon-Britton |first2=Philip William Poole (1863–1938) |author2-link=:d:Q98280854 |title=A Treatise on the Law Concerning Names and Changes of Name |location=London |publisher=Elliot Stock, publisher }} }} <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via Internet Archive'' |url=https://archive.org/details/treatiseonlawcon00foxdiala/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater |type=UCLA }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

* {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |date=1907 |orig-date=1901 |title=Heraldic Badges |location=London |publisher=John Lane }} {{OCLC|4897294|show=all}}. }} <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via HathiTrust'' |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006725706 }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via Google Books'' |url={{GBurl |x8ETAAAAYAAJ |pg=PR3}} |type=NYPL }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

* {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |title=Heraldry Explained |type=a shortened version of ''The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopædia of Armory'' |location=Edinburgh |publisher=T.C. & E.C. Jack |language=en}} Retrieved March 7, 2025.}} <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |date=1907 |title=''Via Internet Archive'' |url=https://archive.org/details/heraldryexplaine00foxd_0/page/n9/mode/2up?view=theater |type=Boston Public Library }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

* {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |date=1909 |title=A Complete Guide to Heraldry: Illustrated by Nine Plates in Colour and Nearly 800 Other Designs, Mainly From Drawings by Graham Johnston, Herald Painter to the Lyon Court |type=a shorter version of ''The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopædia of Armory'' |location=Edinburgh |publisher=T.C. & E.C. Jack }} Retrieved March 10, 2025. {{LCCN|73115793}} (1969 re-print), {{LCCN|84029280}} (1985 re-print); {{OCLC|1048481784}}.}} <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Fox-Davies, ''Complete Guide'',|1909|p=}} |title=''Via Internet Archive'' |url=https://archive.org/details/completeguidetoh00foxdrich/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |type=University of California Libraries }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via Google Books'' |url={{GBurl|jTcEAAAAIAAJ|pg=PR5}} |type=Stanford }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

* {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |date=1899 |last1="X" (''pseudonym'') |title=The Right to Bear Arms |location=London |publisher=Elliot Stock (1838–1911) }} Retrieved March 14, 2025.}} <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via Google Books'' |url={{GBurl |d5H2dswu1esC |pg=PR3}} |type=Oxford }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

* {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |date=1906 |title=Their Majesties' Court – 1906 |location=London |publisher=The Caxton Publishing Company, publisher}} }} <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via HathiTrust'' |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31158001505352&seq=15 |type=Cal Berkeley }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

* {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |date=1907 |title=The Dangerville Inheritance |location=John Lane. New York: John Lane Company. McMvii }} {{OCLC|11192869|show=all}}.}} <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via Internet Archive'' |url=https://archive.org/details/dangervilleinhe00davgoog/page/n8/mode/2up?view=theater |type=NYPL }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

* {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |date=1907 |title=The Mauleverer Murders |location=London |publisher=John Lane}}{{Sfn|''Saturday Review'', September 7,|1907|p=540 }} }} <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via Google Books'' |url={{GBurl |_tghAAAAMAAJ |pg=PP9}} |type=NYPL }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

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* {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |date=1909 |title=''"The Sex Triumphant"'' |location=London |publisher=George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. |series=With four full-page plates by H.L. Shindler (''né'' Harry Lumsden Shindler; 1870–1964) }} {{free access}} {{OCLC|767241725}}.}} <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>In {{cite book |date=2000 |editor1-last=Clarke |editor1-first=Ignatius Frederick "Ian" (1918–2009) |editor1-link=I. F. Clarke |title=British Future Fiction |volume=5: "1700–1914"}}</li> <ol type="a" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''2017 re-print'' |location=London |publisher=Taylor and Francis }} {{ISBN|978-1-3512-2262-4|1-3512-2262-7}}; {{OCLC|1011122256|show=all}}.</li></ol></ol></ol>

* {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |date=1909 |title=The Troubles of Colonel Marwood |location=London |publisher=F.V. White → Frederick Vernon White (1851–1932)}} {{OCLC|315843551|show=all}}.}} * {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |date=1910 |title=The Duplicate Death |url=https://archive.org/details/duplicatedeath00davgoog/page/n12/mode/2up?view=theater |location=New York |publisher=The Macaulay Company }} {{OCLC|11192921|show=all}}.}} <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via Internet Archive'' |url=https://archive.org/details/duplicatedeath00davgoog/page/n12/mode/2up?view=theater |type=NYPL }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

* {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |date=1911 |title=The Testament of John Hastings |location=London |publisher=John Long, Ltd. }} {{OCLC|4349807|show=all}}.}} * {{hanging indent |text={{cite book |date=1912 |title=The Ultimate Conclusion |location=London |publisher=John Long, Ltd. }} {{OCLC|21249836|show=all}}.}}

{{refend}}

==Coat of arms== {{Infobox COA wide |image = File:Fox-Davies Arms.svg |escutcheon = Sable a demi sun in splendour issuant in base Or a chief dancetée Or |crest = A demi dragon rampant Gules collared Or holding in the dexter claw a hammer proper |motto = {{langnf|cy|Da Fydd|Good Faith}} and a pun on the name Davies |year_adopted = 1905 }}

== See also == * {{Portal inline|Heraldry}}

== Bibliography == ===Annotations=== {{Reflist|group=lower-alpha|30em}} <!--{{notelist}}-->

=== Citations === {{Reflist|30em}}

=== References === {{refbegin|30em|indent=yes}} <!--B--> * {{cite book |date=1802 |title=Bookseller (The): A Newspaper of British and Foreign Literature |location=Edinburgh |url=https://archive.org/details/booksellernewspa1916unse/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |language=en}} Retrieved March 7, 2025. {{ISSN|0006-7539}}; {{OCLC|8861630|show=all}}. <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|''Bookseller'', February 11,|1916|p=51}} |date=February 11, 1916 |title=''"Trade and Literary Gossip" → "Messrs. T. C. & E. C. Jack"'' |url=https://archive.org/details/booksellernewspa1916unse/page/50/mode/2up?view=theater |page=51 |series=Thomas Chater Jack (1863–1939) and Edwin Chisholm Jack (1864–1939) (husband of Louey Chisholm; 1863–1948), sons of Thomas Chisholm Jack (1830–1886), the publishing firm's founder |volume=65 (Old Series), No. 972 → Vol. 15 (New Series), No. 351 |via=Internet Archive (Illinois) }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

<!--C--> * {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|''Catholic Encyclopedia'',|1917|p=60}} |date=1917 |title=The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924063262053/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater | publisher=The Encyclopedia Press |location=New York | page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924063262053/page/n95 60]}}{{PD-notice}} {{free access}}

<!--D--> * {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Dickins,|1987|p=}} |date=1987 |last1=Dickins |first1= Gordon |title=An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire |publisher=Shropshire Libraries |pages=32, 94 |edition=2nd }} {{ISBN|978-0-9038-0237-6|0-9038-0237-6}}; {{OCLC|60048879|show=all}}.

<!--F--> * {{cite book |last=Fox-Davies |first=Arthur Charles |authorlink=Arthur Charles Fox-Davies |title=Armorial Families: A Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, Showing which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority |location=Edinburgh |publisher=T.C. & E.C. Jack |url=https://archive.org/details/familiesarmorial00foxdrich/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |access-date=September 8, 2017|language=en}} Retrieved September 8, 2017. {{OCLC|259702444|show=all}}. <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> {{hanging indent |text=↓ Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, publisher{{Sfn|''Bookseller'', February 11,|1916|p=51}} }} <li>{{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Fox-Davies, ''Armorial Families'',|1899|p=}} |date=1899 |title=''3rd ed. Via HathiTrust'' |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2525606&seq=7 |type=Cal Berkeley |page= }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |date=1899 |title=''3rd ed. Via Internet Archive'' |url=https://archive.org/details/familiesarmorial00foxdrich/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |type=Cal Berkeley |page= }} {{free access}}</li> {{hanging indent |text=↓ London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., publisher}} <li>{{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Fox-Davies, ''Armorial Families'',|1929|p=716}} |date=1929 |title=''7th ed. Via Internet Archive'' |url=https://archive.org/details/armorialfamilies01foxd/page/716/mode/2up?view=theater |type=Boston |page=716 }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

<!--H--> * {{cite book |date=1898–1928 |editor1-last=Hurd |editor1-first=Sir Percy Angier (1864–1950) |editor1-link=Percy Hurd |editor2-last=Massey |editor2-first=Albert (asst. ed. beginning 1906) |title=The Outlook |type=weekly |publisher=The Outlook Publishing Co., 167 Strand, W.C., publisher. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co., 104, Grafton Street, distributor}} Retrieved March 13, 2014. {{OCLC|13515926|show=all}}, {{OCLC search link|222000564}}. <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Review, ''Outlook'', August 17,|1907|p=215}} |date=August 17, 1907 |last1=Review |title="The Average Man. ''By A. C. Fox-Davies"'' |url={{GBurl |cXg6AQAAIAAJ |pg=PA215 |dq=Average Man}} |volume=20, No. 498 |page=215 |via=Google Books (NYPL) }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

<!--I--> * {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|''International Who's Who'',|1912|pp=474–475}} |date=1912 |last1=''International Who's Who'' |chapter=Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles |title=The International Who's Who in the World |pages=474–475 |location=New York |publisher=International Who's Who Publishing Company }} <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via Internet Archive'' |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinworld00unkngoog/page/474/mode/2up?view=theater |type=Harvard }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |title=''Via Google Books'' |url={{GBurl|I-wRAAAAYAAJ |pg=PA474}} |type=Harvard }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

<!--L--> * {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Lattimore,|2012|p=}} |date= 2012 |last1=Lattimore |first1=Colin |title=The Bookplates of Miss C. Helard |location=London |publisher=The Bookplate Society }} {{ISBN|978-0-9555-4282-4}}. <div style="margin-left:6em">Includes a detailed biography and profile of Fox-Davies in Section 2, and Fox-Davies's own unpublished biographical notes about himself and his family in Appendix 3.</div>

<!--O--> * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Obituary, ''Times'', May 21,|1928|p=22}} |last1=Obituary|date=May 21, 1928 |title=Mr. A. C. Fox-Davies, Expert in Pedigrees and Heraldry |newspaper=The Times |page=22}} <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''Transcript Via Findagrave.com'' |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172122290/ |access-date=March 15, 2025}} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

<!--R--> * {{cite book |date=1910 |last1=Round |first1=John Horace (1854–1928) |author1-link=J. Horace Round |title=Peerage and Pedigree; Studies in Peerage Law and Family History |type=2 Vols. |location=London |publisher=James Nisbet & Co., Ltd. & The St. Catherine Press}} Retrieved March 15, 2025. {{OCLC|21477012|show=all}}. <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Round, Vol. 1,|1910|pp=307–384}} |date=1910 |title=''"Heraldry and the Gent"'' |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924102029414/page/306/mode/2up?view=theater |volume=1 |pages=307–384 |via=Internet Archive (Cornell) }} {{free access}}</li></ol></ol>

<!--S--> * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|''Saturday Review'', September 7,|1907|p=540}} |last1=Saturday Review of Books |date=September 7, 1907 |title=Real Thing in the Murder Mystery Line." – "''The Mauleverer Murders.'' By A. C. Fox-Davies |series=Reviews of Most Lately Published Books |newspaper=The New York Times |volume=56 |issue=18123 |page=540 (digital image 26 of 30) }} Retrieved January 8, 2015. <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{cite book |title=''Pdf Via Times Machine'' |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/09/07/104708345.pdf }} {{free access}}</li> <li>{{cite book |title=''Pdf Via WayBack Machine'' |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/09/07/104708345.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314145742/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/09/07/104708345.pdf |archive-date=14 March 2022 |type=Archived March 14, 2022}} {{free access}} <li>{{cite book |title=''Via New York Times Permalink'' |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/09/07/104708345.html?zoom=16.18 |url-access=subscription }}</li></ol></ol>

<!--W--> * {{cite book |title=Who Was Who |url=https://archive.org/details/whowaswho19161920002vari/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |url-access=registration |type=Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles |series=First published in 1848 }} <ol type="i" start="1"> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>{{Cite book |date=December 1, 2007 |title=''Online via Oxford University Press'' |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U196567 |access-date=September 13, 2010 |url-access=subscription |publisher=Oxford University Press }} {{doi|10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U196567}}; {{ISBN|978-0-1995-4089-1}}; {{OCLC|5557231783}}. <li>{{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|''Who Was Who'', Vol. 2,|1967|p=375}} |date=1967 |title=''Vol. 2: "1916–1928"'' |url=https://archive.org/details/whowaswho19161920002vari/page/374/mode/2up?q=%22pox+-+davies%22&view=theater |url-access=registration |type=5 Vols. |edition=4th |publisher=Adam & Charles Black |via=Internet Archive (Camp C.C., Franklin, Virginia) }} {{ISBN|978-0-7136-0169-5|0-7136-0169-8}}; {{OCLC|6352121|show=all}}.</li></ol></ol>

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==External links== {{Wikisource|Author:Arthur Charles Fox-Davies}} {{Commons category|Arthur Charles Fox-Davies}} {{wikiquote}}

* {{Gutenberg author | id=25733| name=Arthur Charles Fox-Davies}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Arthur Charles Fox-Davies}}

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