Thomas Davy

Thomas Arthur Lewis "Tad" Davy (1 May 1890 – 18 February 1933) was a lawyer and Western Australian politician (Attorney-General and Minister for Education). Thomas Davy was born on 1 May 1890 in Auckland, New Zealand, the eldest son of a doctor, Thomas George Davy, and his wife Emily, Gates. The family moved to London in 1894 before migrating to Western Australia in 1895. Dr Thomas Davy practised medicine firstly at Coolgardie, then Fremantle and West Perth. Davy went to school at Coolgardie, then in Fremantle and at the High School, Perth (now Hale School), where in 1909 he received a Rhodes scholarship. He left to study law at Exeter College in Oxford, before being called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1913. The following year he returned to Western Australia, practising law for a time. In February 1915 Davy joined the Royal Field Artillery and served in France from May 1915 until he was wounded in action in September 1916. Davy continued his service in India until 1919. On 21 December 1915 Davy married Penelope Ethel, daughter of Horatio William Sholl, a Western Australian politician.