Non-heraldic Career
Fox-Davies was called by his family and friends "Charlie".
He was born in Bristol and brought up at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire. His paternal family (Davies) was of Welsh origin. His paternal grandfather, Charles Davies of Cardigan, was an ironmonger. His father, Thomas Davies of Coalbrookdale, worked for the Coalbrookdale Iron Company. His maternal grandfather was Alderman John Fox JP of Coalbrookdale.
Fox-Davies was educated at Ackworth School, Yorkshire but left at the age of 14 in 1885 after hitting one of the schoolmasters. He received no further formal education, but was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1901 and called to the Bar in 1906.
As a barrister, he practised on the South Eastern Circuit, at the Old Bailey, and at the Surrey and South London Sessions. He also prepared printed cases for peerage cases in the House of Lords.
In addition to his writing on heraldry, he published a number of works of fiction, including detective stories such as The Dangerville Inheritance (1907), The Manleverer Murders (1907) and The Duplicate Death (1910).
He was a Conservative in politics, and unsuccessfully stood for election as Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil in 1910, 1923 and 1924. He was, however, elected as a member of Holborn Borough Council in London.
He married in 1901 Mary Ellen Blanche Crookes, by whom he had one son and one daughter. His wife worked as a heraldic artist, often for her husband's publications, under the pseudonym "C. Helard.".
He lived at Warwick Gardens, Kensington, London, and had chambers at 23 Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn.
He died of portal hypertension and cirrhosis of the liver. He was buried in the parish churchyard at Coalbrookdale.
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