John Davies (classical scholar, born 1679)

John Davies (1679–1732) was an English cleric and academic, known as a classical scholar, and President of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1717.

His father was a merchant or tradesman in that city, who died while he was young, and his mother a daughter of Sir John Turton, knight, justice of the court of king's bench.

The other pieces appeared at Cambridge in the following order:[2] Davies had also gone as far as the middle of the third book of Cicero's De Officiis when he died.

His will passed the task to Richard Mead, who put it into the hands of Thomas Bentley; but the manuscript was burnt.

[2] Styan Thirlby, in the preface to his edition of Justin Martyr (1722), acknowledged the assistance of Davies, and printed his notes.