Thomas Davis (priest)

Thomas Davis (15 February 1804 – 11 November 1887) was a Church of England clergyman, author and hymn writer.

(d.1820) and is recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1788 as having "kissed the hand" of King George III at the Bishop's Palace, Worcester.

[4][5][6] In 1833 Davis was ordained a priest and became his father's curate at Worcester, and in 1840 was appointed Vicar of Roundhay, Leeds in Yorkshire.

[2][4][10] Davis is recorded in The Westminster Review as "one of the conscientious clergyman of the Church of England" who was "unable to preach the doctrine of endless suffering".

A Philosophical Radical, Davis's controversial views were published in 1866 in his book Endless Sufferings not the Doctrine of Scripture.