Thomas Davy

Thomas Arthur Lewis "Tad" Davy (1 May 1890 – 18 February 1933) was an Australian lawyer and politician who served as Attorney-General and Minister for Education of Western Australia.

Biography Thomas Davy was born on 1 May 1890 in Auckland, New Zealand, the eldest son of a doctor, Thomas George Davy, and his wife Emily, Gates.

Davy went to school at Coolgardie, then in Fremantle and at the High School, Perth (now Hale School), where in 1909 he received a Rhodes scholarship. He left to study law at Exeter College in Oxford, before being called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1913. The following year he returned to Western Australia, practising law for a time.

In February 1915 Davy joined the Royal Field Artillery and served in France from May 1915 until he was wounded in action

At the end of World War I he returned to Western Australia and resumed his law practice, subsequently becoming a partner in the legal firm of Northmore, Hale, Davy and Leake, Davy sat on the High School's Board of Governors from 1920 and as its chairman in 1929 instigated the change in the school's name to Hale School.

On 29 April 1930 Davy was appointed as Attorney-General and in October 1931 also took on the position of Minister for Education. In 1932 he was also made the Minister for the North-West. Despite being a lawyer, King's Counsel and the attorney-general, Davy died intestate, leaving an estate worth £8,946.

Legacy A memorial aviary, designed by Harold Boas, was constructed at the Perth Zoo and named after him, and a street in Wembley Downs is named after him.