Sir Henry Davison (16 March 1805 – 4 November 1860)[2] was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Madras from 1859 to 1860.
[3] The fourth son of Thomas Davison, of St Bride's, Fleet Street,[4] City of London, Davison was educated at Trinity College, Oxford (B.A.
[2] Having been a puisne judge at Madras (sworn in 16 March 1857),[5] Davison was appointed Chief Justice in March 1859,[6] but did not serve for long, dying at Ootacamund on 4 November 1860.
[7] William Makepeace Thackeray affectionately dedicated his historical novel The Virginians (published from 1857 to 1859) to Davison.
[8][9] Davison was married and had issue; his daughter, Emily Jane, married the organist Philip Armes in 1864.