Thomas Osborne Davis (other)
Thomas Osborne Davis may refer to: *Thomas Osborne Davis (Canadian politician) (1856–1917), Saskatchewan parliamentarian *Thomas Davis (Young Irelander) (1814–1845), Young Ireland writer and politician See also *Thomas Davis (other) Thomas, Tom or Tommy Davis may refer to: Business * Thomas E. Davis (1785–1878), British real estate developer in New York City * Thomas Benjamin Frederick Davis (1867–1942), Jersey-born South African businessman * Thomas Henry Davis (busines ...

Thomas Osborne Davis (Canadian Politician)
Thomas Osborne Davis (16 August 1856 – 23 January 1917) was a Canadian Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada representing the Provisional District of Saskatchewan, and later a member of the Senate of Canada. He was tutored by his father Samuel Davis and became a general merchant at Prince Albert, Northwest Territories. In 1885, he married Rebecca Jennings. He served on the town council for Prince Albert and was mayor from 1894 to 1895. Davis died in office in Prince Albert at the age of 60. His son Thomas Clayton Davis also served as mayor of Prince Albert, going on to serve in the Saskatchewan assembly, as a Saskatchewan judge and as an ambassador for Canada. Davis' daughter Alice was married to hockey executive and banker H. J. Sterling. Legacy The hamlet of Davis, Saskatchewan Davis is an unincorporated community south of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. Davis was once a village but has since shrunk to a handful of houses. It is just northwest o ...
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Thomas Davis (Young Irelander)
Thomas Osborne Davis (14 October 1814 – 16 September 1845) was an Irish writer; with Charles Gavan Duffy and John Blake Dillon, a founding editor of '' The Nation,'' the weekly organ of what came to be known as the Young Ireland movement. While embracing the common cause of a representative, national government for Ireland, Davis took issue with the nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell by arguing for the common ("mixed") education of Catholics and Protestants and by advocating for Irish as the national language. Early life Thomas Davis was born on 14 October 1814, in Mallow, County Cork, fourth and last child of James Davis, a Welsh surgeon in the Royal Artillery based for many years in Dublin, and an Irish mother. His father died in Exeter a month before his birth, en route to serve in the Peninsular War. His mother was Protestant, but also related to the Chiefs of Clan O'Sullivan of Beare, members of the Gaelic nobility of Ireland. His mother had enough money to live ...
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