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William Rupert Davies was born on September 12, 1879, at Welshpool, Mongomeryshire, Wales and emigrated to Canada in 1894. Shortly after his arrival he became an apprentice in the printing trade with the Brantford Expositor. He entered the newspaer field as publisher and editor in 1908 when he leased The Herald, a weekly paper printed in Thamesville, Ontario. Successful as a publisher, he purchased The Herald in 1908. Ten years later he sold it and bought The Renfrew Mercury, a larger weekly, which he published until 1925. Later that year he purchased The Daily British Whig of Kingston and, in December, 1926, merged with The Daily Standard of Kingston, becoming vice-president and editor and later the president (1931) of the newly formed Whig-Standard. Davies entered the broadcasting business in 1941 when he formed Allied Broadcasting Corporation to build and operate a radio station in Kingston.. In August, 1942, Radio Station CKWS was established. In November 1942 Davies was appointed to the Senate of Canada, a position he held until his death in 1967.

Arthur Llewellyn Davies, the son of William Rupert and Florence (Mackay) Davies was born August 18, 1903, at Brantford, Ontario. In 1926 he became City Editor for the Daily British Whig, newly purchased by his father. He continued in the family business and in 1951 became the Publisher of Canada's oldest daily newpaper. He held this position until succeeded by his son, Michael.

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Author and playwright, Toronto, Ont. Born at Thamesville, Ont. and attended Queen's and Oxford Universities. Literary editor of "Saturday Night" magazine, 1940, editor and later publisher of the Peterborough "Examiner" 1942-1965. Professor at University of Toronto, teaching literature at Massey College 1961-1981. Wrote the Deptford Trilogy.

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A. Davis and Son was established by Andrew Davis in 1872. The third generation of the Davis family to be involved in the tanning industry, the company was not officially incorporated under this name until 1903. E. J. Davis took over the company from Andrew Davis in 1884. In April of that year the building burned down and was rebuilt at Kinghorn, north of Toronto. In 1903 the tannery burned again and it was at this point that the company relocated to Kingston, Ontario purchasing the Cannington plant already in operation.The tannery itself had been very successful in its day but was closed in November 1973 when C.S. Riley, president of Dominion Tanners of Winnipeg, and Mr. Davis, president of A. Davis and Son Ltd., announced the merger of the Kingston firm with the much larger Winnipeg one.

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Dr. Sturton Mathwin "Sam" Davis, a Rear Admiral with the Royal Canadian Navy, Commandant of the National Defense College and Adjunct Professor at the Queen's University School of Public Administration, was born in Birkenhead, England on 18 April 1919. After graduating from the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, he served in the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors during the Second World War. He met his wife, Lois, on a troop ship in Halifax during the war (she had been serving with the American Red Cross), and they married in England. In 1948, they moved to Montreal.

At the outbreak of the Korean War, the Royal Canadian Navy recruited him, and he rose to become director general for ships. He later became Commandant of the National Defense College (at Fort Frontenac), a position he held until his retirement in 1974. That same year, he became Executive Director of the Queen's-Kingston Health Sciences Complex.

Through part-time studies at Queen's University, he had completed six Masters degrees in Engineering, Education and the Arts, as well as his doctorate, by 1979. He became an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Administration in 1985, introducing and coordinating the Health Policy Specialization component of that program. He served on numerous committees throughout his career, including the KFL&A Health Board, the Health Services Restructuring Commission and various committees within Kingston General Hospital.

Dr. Davis passed away on 28 October 1998.

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E.R. Davis was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.