Gordon Leslie Herries Davies (born Gordon Leslie Davies; 18 January 1932 in Manchester – 22 February 2019 in North Uist, Scotland) was a British and Irish geographer, specializing in geomorphology, and a historian of geography and geology.
The reason for the name change was that K. Gordon Davies (1923–1994)[3] was appointed in 1977 to the Erasmus Smith Chair of Modern History at TCD.
The lecture entitled The Mapping of Natural Phenomena in 19th Century Ireland was expanded into his 1983 book Sheets of Many Colours.
[3] At TCD he served as a College Tutor for a number of years and, later in his career, as a Senior Proctor.
[7] In retirement, Herries Davies expended considerable effort as one of the editors of ‘The Dictionary of Irish Biography.
[3] Desmond Alfred Gillmor, an emeritus professor at TCD, gave, in a 2019 memorial tribute, a description of the geographical work of Herries Davies.