Robert Edward Davies (30 July 1913 – 17 May 2002) was the Anglican Bishop of Tasmania from 1963 to 1981.[1] [2]
Educated at Queensland University,[3] he was ordained in 1937 and began his career as an assistant priest at Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle, NSW. After World War II service as a chaplain with Toc H and the Royal Australian Air Force[4] he became Warden of St John's College Brisbane. After this he was Archdeacon of Canberra, then Wagga Wagga.[5] He became an assistant bishop of Newcastle and Warden of St John's Theological College, Morpeth in 1960 and three years later the Tasmanian diocesan bishop.