There he became friends with Evan James Williams, a future professor of physics at Aberystwyth University and member of the Royal Society.
Davies would move to Rome in August 1926 to study with the leading expert on absolute differential calculus, Tullio Levi-Civita.
[1] In 1930, after a short academic break due to poor health, Davies accepted a position as an assistant lecturer at King's College London.
Davies was affected by the evacuation of King's College due to the London Blitz and was forced to temporarily relocate to the University of Bristol.
After the conclusion of the Second World War and his subsequent promotion to Lecturer; Davie would become the chair of mathematics at the University of Southampton.