Thomas Frederick Davies Sr. (August 31, 1831 – November 9, 1905) was the third Bishop of Michigan in the Episcopal Church in the United States.
He entered Yale University in 1849, where he was close friends with George Shiras Jr. and Andrew Dickson White, and graduated in 1853.
[5] He was survived by his wife and his children, Anna Hackstaff, Marion Sanford, and Thomas Frederick Davies Jr. - who was serving as rector of All Saints' Episcopal Church in Worcester, Massachusetts,[6] and would go on to become the second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts.
Davies was ordained a deacon on May 18, 1856, by Bishop Williams at the Christ Church in Middletown, Connecticut, and priest on May 27, 1857.
[2] He was consecrated at St. Peter's as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan on St. Luke's Day, October 18, 1889, and served in that position until his death.