Herbert Davies

Herbert Davies (1818–1885) was an English physician.

Life The son of Dr. Thomas Davies, he was born in London 30 September 1818. After education at North End House School, Hampstead, he obtained a scholarship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1838, but migrated to Queens' College, and graduated B.A. as thirty-first wrangler in 1842. In 1843 he took the degree of M.B., was elected a Fellow of Queens' College in 1844, and graduated M.D. in 1848. He studied medicine in Paris, Vienna, and London.

Davies was on 5 August 1845 elected assistant-physician to the London Hospital. In 1850 he was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1854 physician to the London Hospital, a post he held for twenty years. He lectured in the medical school there on materia medica, and then on medicine. At Cambridge he was examiner for medical degrees and assessor to the regius professor of physic.