Description: The biography of William Davis (1758-1839). Born in Minehead, he was a member of the Society of Friends. After a period in London, he returned to Somerset and traded as a merchant, before moving to Bath in 1808. He proposed Savings' Banks for the use of the poorer workers to keep their money, in a series of letters to the Bath Herald in 1813. He was a charitable and benevolent man and details are given of his other works and the development of his banking scheme.
Extracted from the Bath and Cheltenham Gazette 26th February 1839. Printed by George Wood, Parsonage Lane, Bath.