Davies matriculated from Brasenose College, Oxford University on 27 June 1702, aged 16.
His father died on 8 July 1710,[1][2] with his Llannerch and Gwysaney estates passed on to Davies.
[3] Davies married Anne, daughter of John Brockholes of Claughton, Lancaster.
[3][2] After his death, a notable effigy of him was sculpted by Henry Cheere and placed in St Mary's Church, Mold.
The full-length effigy shows Davies in Roman clothing,[2][4] described as "superb" by Thompson Cooper, a writer for the Dictionary of National Biography.