William Henry Davies (30 December 1825 – 13 January 1868) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.

[1] He was educated at Charterhouse School,[1] before going up to Christ Church, Oxford.

[3] He played county level cricket for Shropshire between 1847 and 1854 while playing at club level for Shrewsbury, and was a co-founder of the Free Foresters Cricket Club in 1850.

[2] His ecclesiastical career after graduating from Oxford is unclear, though it is known he was chaplain at St George's Hospital until his death, aged 42, at sea off the coast off the Cape of Good Hope of South Africa in January 1868.

His brother was Sir Robert Henry Davies, a colonial official in British India.