Henry Edwards Davis (11 July 1756 – 10 February 1784) was a British author.
He was educated at Ealing and on 17 May 1774 he entered Balliol College, Oxford.
In the same spring he attacked the first volume of Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), in an "examination" of the noted fifteenth and sixteenth chapters.
[2] Gibbon states that Davis was rewarded for the attack by a "royal pension".
[1] Gibbon also said in his Memoirs of My Life and Writings that "victory over such antagonists was a sufficient humiliation".