William Broughton Davies (c. 1831–1906) was a Sierra Leonean Creole medical doctor who served in the British Colonial Army from 1860 to 1881.
[1] Davies was born in about 1831 in the Liberated African village of Waterloo, Sierra Leone.
His parents had been 'Aku' or Yoruba recaptives who had been rescued from slavery and had been deposited in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Davies was sent by his parents to the CMS Grammar School to train and eventually receive orders as a priest.
Instead Davies, alongside Africanus Horton and Samuel Campbell he received a scholarship to study medicine in England.