[4] Davies was a noted Georgian and Regency period wit: his recorded witticisms include put-downs of Charles Augustus Tulk and Frederick Goulburn.
[2] The "Synod" group kept in touch with Byron, writing via Hobhouse in January 1819 to advise against the publication of Don Juan.
[2] Brummell's inner circle, to which Davies belonged, included William Arden, 2nd Baron Alvanley, who stepped into his shoes as the ton's leading influence.
[11] Charles Greville wrote of "that set of roués and spendthrifts who were at the height of the fashion for some years", including in it John Payne.
[12] Also in 1816, Davies and Hobhouse joined Brooks's, in a group of other Whigs including Leicester Stanhope and Thomas Raikes.
[2] If considered frivolous by Byron, in politics Davies was a Whig radical, and in 1818 became a founding member of the "Rota Club", a name harking back to 1659 and the republican James Harrington.
In a letter to Francis Hodgson in 1828, he writes of encountering Sir James Webster-Wedderburn, another dandy of Byron's circle, and his wife Lady Frances with whom he had had an affair, the former in a mocking tone and the latter suggestively in Latin.
[19] Surviving tailor's bills for Davies are evidence for the priorities of "dandy" dressing for followers of Brummell.
Key items were white shirts and neckties, light-coloured waistcoats, braces to keep up pantaloons, Hessian boots, and dark blue jackets cut away into tails.
[21] Before leaving the country in 1820, Davies packed a trunk with personal papers and some literary manuscripts, and deposited it at a London private bank, properly (from 1818) then called Ransom & Co., where Kinnaird was the manager.
There was one of the third canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Hymn to Intellectual Beauty and Mont Blanc in early drafts.