Sir Daniel Thomas Davies
KCVO (November 1899 – 19 May 1966) was a Welsh physician.
His parents lived in the
Garw Valley area, and he attended
Bridgend Grammar School. He later studied at
University College Cardiff. In 1927 he was appointed
pathologist of
Middlesex Hospital,
London, before, in 1930, joining the clinical staff at the
Royal Free Hospital
The Royal Free Hospital (also known simply as the Royal Free) is a major teaching hospital in the Hampstead area of the London Borough of Camden. The hospital is part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which also runs services at Barn ...
. He also worked at the
Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth,
St John's Wood from 1930 to 1965.
From 1938 onwards, he was physician to the
royal family
A royal family is the immediate family of kings/queens, emirs/emiras, sultans/ sultanas, or raja/ rani and sometimes their extended family. The term imperial family appropriately describes the family of an emperor or empress, and the term ...
, firstly to King
George VI, and later to both Queen
Elizabeth and the
Duke of Windsor; he received a knighthood in the
1951 New Year Honours
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.
His published works include several medical books, including a well-regarded work on
pneumonia and books on
anaemia and
peptic ulcers. Together with
Lord Dawson, Graham Hodgson,
Lionel Whitby and others he undertook important research work on the treatment of
pneumonia with the use of Felton's serum.
He died at his home in
Wimpole Street, London in May 1966.
References
Welsh writers
1899 births
1966 deaths
20th-century Welsh medical doctors
Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Alumni of Cardiff University
People educated at Ysgol Brynteg
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