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WILTSHIRE

DING 2021: "Born at Penton, nr. Weyhill, Hants. In 1763 he began to work for the Steward to Viscount Weymouth (later first Marquis of Bath) at Longleat and succeded this Steward in 1777. In 1796 Davis moved to Horningsham Manor House and continued to be the Steward of the Longleat Estate until his death. He published many papers on agriculture and was also a keen historian and botanist. The Appendix on dialect words does not appear in the first, 1794, edition of The Agricultural Survey of Wiltshire. His son, Thomas Davis (1777-1839), enlarged and re-issued this survey in 1811 and 1813, where the Appendix was now included. He stated in the Introduction that his "father undertook in the summer of 1808, to republish his Survey of Wilts....He died in November 1807 without having made any progress in it." (Davis 1811: v). Rev. Walter W. Skeat edited this glossary in 1888."

WORKS

. 1811. "Appendix: A Glossary of the names of implements of husbandry, operations in agriculture, and other provincial words, in common use in the villages of Wiltshire." General View of the Agriculture of Wiltshire. London: Printed for Richard Phillips: 258-268.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

Daffern, Thomas Clough. 2018. "Thomas Davis (1749-1807)". The Book of Thomases. vol. 1. Betete: IIPSGP: 193-194.

Torrens, H. S. 2004. "Davis, Thomas (1749-1807)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [Accessed 25th March 2021.

Skeat, Walter William. 1888. "Agricultural Dialect Words. I.—Wiltshire." The Archaeological Review 1.1 (March): 33-39.

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Thomas Davis (of Langleat)

(1749-1807)