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Davies Family / The Davies at Eton
« on: January 09, 2016, 11:36:25 PM »
Hello, new here. I was flipping through Cyril Connolly's Enemies of Promise (a book that's 2/3 literary criticism and 1/3 autobiography of Connolly's Eton days) and was surprised to find a passing reference to Nico. Some further digging produced a quote where he refers to Michael as one his heroes. It got me thinking that there's such a huge amount of material available on Eton that some of it must contain some information about the Davies boys.
What I've found that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere:
A collection of letters (http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=oxfaleph011866911&indx=1&recIds=oxfaleph011866911&bt=europeanaapi) from George, Michael and Nico's housemaster (and Peter's tutor) Hugh Macnaghten. They were written during WWI to cheer up his former students on the front. He mentions Michael a lot. He refers to a humorous poem that Michael had written for the Eton College Chronicle. All the Chronicles up to 1922 are available online but nowhere does it say who wrote any of the articles or poems so I thought this was an interesting find.
Some videos of the wall game. Peter played in 1913, Michael 1917-1918 and Nico 1920-21.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Alna0thSE from 1921
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSdlWtk1grI also from 1921.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060005443?bt=europeanaapi from 1917 (skip to about 2:20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYezOJFku40 and from 1910-1919.
Can anyone identify Nico/Michael/Peter in these videos? Being a colleger Peter would be playing in the lighter stripes (purple and white) while oppidans Nico and Michael would be in the darker (orange and purple).
These were all new to me. Anybody have anything else?
What I've found that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere:
A collection of letters (http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=oxfaleph011866911&indx=1&recIds=oxfaleph011866911&bt=europeanaapi) from George, Michael and Nico's housemaster (and Peter's tutor) Hugh Macnaghten. They were written during WWI to cheer up his former students on the front. He mentions Michael a lot. He refers to a humorous poem that Michael had written for the Eton College Chronicle. All the Chronicles up to 1922 are available online but nowhere does it say who wrote any of the articles or poems so I thought this was an interesting find.
Some videos of the wall game. Peter played in 1913, Michael 1917-1918 and Nico 1920-21.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Alna0thSE from 1921
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSdlWtk1grI also from 1921.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060005443?bt=europeanaapi from 1917 (skip to about 2:20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYezOJFku40 and from 1910-1919.
Can anyone identify Nico/Michael/Peter in these videos? Being a colleger Peter would be playing in the lighter stripes (purple and white) while oppidans Nico and Michael would be in the darker (orange and purple).
These were all new to me. Anybody have anything else?

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