7 JULY 1928, Page 7

We regret to record the death at the age of

fifty-three of Professor H. W. C. Davis, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. His England under the Normans and Angevins is as delightful as it is learned, and his short Mediaeval Europe in the " Home University Library " is a lesson in what popular exposition can be when directed by the mind of a scholar. The War turned Professor Davis's researches to modern history and he did memorable work as an apologist of the British cause. He was also editor of the Supplement of the National Dictionary of Biography, 1912-21.