Arthian Davies

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=August 2014}} {{Multiple issues| {{One source|date=January 2025}} {{No footnotes|date=January 2025}} }} [[File:Arthian Davies in 1949.jpg|thumb|Davies in 1949]]

'''Sir William Arthian Davies''' (10 May 1901 – 19 September 1979) was a [[lawyer]] and [[judge]] in England and [[Wales]].

Davies was educated at [[Dulwich College]] and [[Trinity College, Oxford]], where he took a First in Jurisprudence. He was [[Call to the bar|called to the bar]] in 1925 and [[Queen's Counsel|took silk]] in 1947.

He was appointed a [[High Court judge (England and Wales)|judge of the High Court]] and assigned to the [[Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division]] on 1 October 1952, receiving the customary [[Knight Bachelor|knighthood]] a few days later. He was transferred to the [[Queen's Bench Division]] on 3 April 1959. Davies was promoted to be a [[Lord Justice of Appeal]] on 9 January 1961. Following that appointment, he was made a member of the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]]. He retired from his judicial office on 30 September 1974.

==References== * ''The Judges of England 1272-1990'', by Sir John Sainty (Selden Society, 1993)

==External links== * {{wikiquote inline}} {{Authority control}}

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