Harry Elinder Davies

Harry Elinder Davies, QC (24 June 1915 – 20 January 2005) was a Rhodesian and Zimbabwean lawyer and judge.

Born in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Matabeleland, Zimbabwe), Davies was educated at Milton School, Bulawayo, St George's College, Salisbury, and the University of Cape Town, where he took the BA (Law), BCom, and LLB.

In 1963, Davies resigned from the Federal Assembly, shortly before its dissolution, and was appointed President of the Special Court for the hearing of Income Tax Appeals.

In 1968, after the Privy Council's decision in Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke, Davies announced that the Rhodesian courts would not consider this ruling binding as they no longer accepted the Privy Council as part of the Rhodesian judicial hierarchy.

After retiring from the Zimbabwean bench, Davies became a judge of the Supreme Court of Transkei in 1981.