Frederick Davies (Q68552)

Frederick Herbert Davies (1916-1990) of Birkenhead was a schoolmaster, novelist, bookseller, translator of Goldoni, Daudet and others, and Fellow Commoner of Churchill College, Cambridge. He became acquainted with John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter in 1962, by which time they were living in Blaenau Ffestiniog. Davies continued to correspond with, and visit, Playter until her death and went on to publish The Diary of John Cowper Powys 1930, ed. by Frederick Davies (London, 1987).