Cecil Davidge

Cecil Vere Davidge of Little Houghton House DL (14 February 1901 – 27 January 1981) was a British lawyer and academic, who served as a Fellow and bursar of Keble College, Oxford, and as High Sheriff of Northamptonshire.

[1] His father, Cecil William Davidge, was Professor of English at Kobe University in Japan.

[3] Davidge was educated at Abingdon School from September 1913 until 1919 [4] and rowed in the first four for the Abingdon School Boat Club before studying at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he obtained a second-class degree in Jurisprudence in 1923; he obtained the Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1925.

He helped to attract rowers to Keble, making it a strong rowing college.

[2] Davidge married his first wife, Ursula Catherine Smyth, daughter of Christopher Smyth and Emma Louisa, oldest daughter of Sir George William Gunning, 5th Baronet in 1928 and had issue:[1][6] Ursula Catherine Smyth died on 26 October 1948 and Davidge remarried Philippa Felicia Goldwyre Lester, daughter of Peter Frank Lester (son of Rev.