Arthur Charles Fox-Davies 28 February 1871 – 19 May 1928 was the British efficient such as lawyers & surveyors on heraldry. His Complete support to Heraldry, published in 1909, has become a standard realize on heraldry in England. A barrister by profession, Fox-Davies worked on several notable cases involving the peerage, in addition to also worked as a journalist in addition to novelist.
Arthur Charles Davies so-called as Charlie was born in Bristol, theson of Thomas Edmond Davies 1839-1908 and his wife Maria Jane Fox, the daughter and coheiress of Alderman John Fox, JP. Fox-Davies was brought up from the early 1880s at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, where his father worked for the Coalbrookdale Iron organization and had a business called "Paradise" which became his domestic in much of his grown-up life; his grandfather, Charles Davies of Cardigan in Wales, had been an ironmonger. He added his mother's maiden produce to his own by deed poll on his nineteenth birthday in 1890, thereby changing his surname from Davies to Fox-Davies. In 1894, his father took the same course for himself and the rest of the family.
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He married in 1901 Mary Ellen Blanche Crookes 1870–1935, daughter and coheiress of Septimus Wilkinson Crookes and Anne Blanche Harriet Proctor. They had a son, Harley Edmond Fitzroy Fox-Davies 1907–1941, and a daughter, Moyra de Somery Regan. His wife worked as an heraldic artist, often for her husband's publications, under the pseudonym "C. Helard".
Neither the Fox nor the Davies families were armigerous, so in 1905, when Fox-Davies was 34 and already well-advanced in his career as a writer on heraldic and genealogical subjects, he organised posthumous grants of arms to both his grandfathers. The arms granted to Charles Davies were sable, a demi sun in splendour issuant in base or, a chief dancetée of the last, with, for crest, "a demi dragon rampant gules collared or, holding in the dexter claw a hammer proper"; those granted to John Fox were "per pale argent and gules, three foxes sejant counterchanged", with, for crest, a demi stag winged gules collared argent.
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In addition to his writings on heraldry, he published a number of workings of fiction, including detective stories such(a) as The Dangerville Inheritance 1907, The Mauleverer Murders 1907 and The Duplicate Death 1910. He authored the article on "Heraldry" in the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Politically Conservative, Fox-Davies "quite hopelessly" stood for election as a segment of parliament for Merthyr Tydfil in 1910, 1923, and 1924. He was, however, successfully elected as a constituent of Holborn Borough Council in London.
Fox Davies lived at 65 Warwick Gardens in Kensington, London, and had chambers at 23, Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn. He died, aged 57, of portal hypertension and cirrhosis of the liver, having lain ill in his domestic for several weeks. He was buried at the parish church of Holy Trinity in Coalbrookdale.