William Turner Davey

William Turner Davey (1818 – 25 July 1900) was a British artist and engraver who is best known for his reproductions of a number of celebrated Victorian works of art.

August 1857 by Henry Nelson O'Neil (showing British soldiers taking leave of their loved ones as they embark at Gravesend for India, in the wake of the Indian Mutiny), its companion Home Again, and the acclaimed large engraving in mixed mezzotint of Lady Butler's painting Return from Inkerman.

Among his many other works (a much fuller list appears in R. K. Engen's Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Cambridge, 1979) are: On 16 March 1840, Davey married Sarah Ann Barber at St John's Church in Holloway.

William and Sarah had eight children, shown with them on the 1861 census in Portsmouth Road, Long Ditton.

By 1891 they had moved to 6 Florry Cottages in Ramsgate, Kent; William, then 72, is described in the census return as an 'artist, historical engraver/sculptor' and as being paralysed.