John Davie (Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge) explained

John Davie, D.D. (13 September 1777, in Debenham – 10 October 1813, in Bungay) was an academic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.^[1]

Davie was educated at Ipswich School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Sidney Sussex from 1801, the year he was ordained a priest in the Church of England. He was Master of Sidney Sussex from 1811, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1812,^[2] holding both positions until his death.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: The colleges and halls: Sidney Sussex. British History Online. 2018-12-24.
2. Web site: History of the Vice-Chancellorship | Vice-Chancellor's Office. v-c.admin.cam.ac.uk. 23 February 2015 . 2018-12-24.
3. [Alumni Cantabrigienses|Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900]