Stephen Harris Davies (1881-1961) was the third Bishop of Carpentaria.
Davies was born in 1883 and educated at St. John's School, Leatherhead, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[1]
Davies was ordained in 1909.[2] After a curacy at St Matthew's, Holbeck[3] he emigrated to Australia where he joined the Bush Brotherhood of St Paul in Charleville, Queensland,[4] serving as its head[5] until his ordination to the episcopate. In 1925 he ordained the first two Torres Strait Islanders to become priests, Poey Passi[6] and Joseph Lui.[7]
Davies retired in 1949 and died on 29 November 1961.[8] There is a memorial to him at St Michael, Waters Upton.[9]