Henry Davy

Western Morning News 10 May 1922

The piece about Henry Davy is sad, the day before he died.
He was even bigger than Charles James Vlieland in the medical life of Exeter, having been a brilliant student at Guy's Hospital and later physician to the Exeter Dispensary and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. He was Sheriff of Exeter in 1887, President of the British Medical Society at its Exeter Meeting in 1907 and organised Territorial Hospitals in the county throughout the war, for which he was awarded a CB in 1917 and KBE (knighthood) in 1919. It was said that the returning wounded soldiers found the Exeter Hospitals 'heaven'. Davy lived in the beautiful Southernhay House near the Cathedral (now a boutique hotel), where one of his passions was collecting old English china. He was noted for a 'self-forgetting readiness [to] respond to any call' if needed in a medical emergency.

thanks Barbara