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{{Infobox officeholder
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|name = Sir Henry Davies
|honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCSI}} {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CIE}}
|image = Sir Robert Henry Davies (1824–1902) (gcf02117).jpg
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|caption =
|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1824|09|20}}
|birth_place =
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1902|08|23|1824|09|20}}
|death_place = [[Chobham]], England, United Kingdom
|resting_place = [[Thorney Abbey]]
|order1 = [[List of governors of Punjab (British India)|Lieutenant Governor of Punjab]]
|term_start1 = 20 January 1871
|term_end1 = 2 April 1877
|governor_general1= [[Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo|The Earl of Mayo]]<br>[[Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook|The Earl of Northbrook]]<br>[[Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton|The Earl of Lytton]]
|predecessor1 = [[Henry Marion Durand|Sir Henry Marion Durand]]
|successor1 = [[Robert Eyles Egerton|Sir Robert Eyles Egerton]]
|alma_mater = [[East India Company College]]
}}

'''Sir Robert Henry Davies''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCSI|CIE}} (20 September 1824 – 23 August 1902), known as '''Sir Henry Davies''', was a [[United Kingdom|British]] colonial official in [[British Raj|British India]], who served as [[Lieutenant Governor]] of the [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]].

==Biography==
Davies was born in 1824, the son of a Welsh physician, [[David Davies (physician)|Sir David Davies]], who was a physician to King William IV.<ref name="welshjournals">{{cite web |url=http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1386666/llgc-id:1418639/llgc-id:1418763/getText |title=The contribution of Welshmen to the administration of India |publisher=Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion |via=Welsh Journals Online}}</ref> He was educated at [[Charterhouse School]] and the [[East India Company College]] ("Haileybury"). He became a writer (clerk) in the [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]] civil service in 1844 and was an official under the [[Company rule in India|East India Company]] and the [[British Raj]] for the rest of his career.

He served as assistant to the Commissioner of the [[Cis-Sutlej states|Sutlej states]], and later as settlement officer of the [[Lahore]] division. Transferring to [[Oudh State]], he was Chief Commissioner there from 1868 until 1871 (having acted in the post 1865–66), then became [[Governor of the Punjab|Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab]] in 1871, serving until 1877.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V20_337.gif |title=Imperial Gazetteer2 of India |volume=20 |page=331 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |date=1908 |via=Digital South Asia Library}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/panjabnorthwest00douigoog#page/n212/mode/2up/ |title=The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province and Kashmir |last=Douie |first=Sir James McCrone |authorlink=James Douie |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=1916 |page=192}}</ref>

Davies was created a Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Star of India]] (KCSI) in 1874, and appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) in 1877.

After his return to the United Kingdom, he was a member of the [[Council of India]], based in London, from 1885 until 1895, when he retired.<ref name="whowaswho">[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U185254 DAVIES, Sir Robert Henry], ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)</ref>

Davies died at Halebourne, [[Chobham]] on 23 August 1902,<ref name=TTobit>{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Obituary - Sir Robert Henry Davies|day_of_week=Thursday |date=28 August 1902 |page_number=8 |issue=36858| }}</ref> and is buried in the churchyard of [[Thorney Abbey|St Mary and St Botolph]], [[Thorney, Cambridgeshire]].<ref name="welshjournals"/><ref>{{Find a Grave|119744894|Sir Robert Henry Davies}}</ref>

==Family==
Davies married first Jane Elizabeth Cautley, daughter of Major General G. Cautley. After the death of his first wife, he remarried Mary France Cautley, daughter of Rev. Joshua Cautley. She died in 1879.<ref name=TTobit /> His brother, [[William Davies (cricketer, born 1825)|William Henry Davies]], was a first-class cricketer.

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{{s-ttl |title=[[List of Chief Commissioners of Oudh|Chief Commissioner of Oudh]] |years=1868–1871}}
{{s-aft |after=Major General [[Lousada Barrow]]}}
{{s-bef |before= [[Henry Marion Durand|Sir Henry Marion Durand]]}}
{{s-ttl |title=[[List of Governors of Punjab (British India)|Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab]] |years=1871–1877}}
{{s-aft |after=[[Robert Eyles Egerton|Sir Robert Eyles Egerton]]}}
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