Cyril Francis Davie (January 30, 1882 – February 18, 1950) was a lawyer and political figure in

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, Canada. He represented

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in the

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from 1924 to 1933 as a

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. He was born in

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, the son of

Alexander Edmund Batson Davie Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, QC, referred to as A. E. B. Davie (November 24, 1847 – August 1, 1889), was the eighth premier of British Columbia. He served in office from 1887 until his death in 1889. Called to the bar in 1873, he was the ...

and Constance L. Skinner, and was educated at the

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. Davie married Beatrice Pearl Raymond in 1911. He was speaker for the assembly from 1931 to 1933. Davie was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1933. He lived in

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. Davie wrote a chess column for the ''Daily Colonist'' in Victoria for a number of years. He founded the Canadian branch of the Chess Amateur Correspondence League and organized the first chess championship held in Canada. Davie died in Duncan at the age of 68.

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1882 births 1950 deaths Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia British Columbia Conservative Party MLAs University of Ottawa alumni 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia {{Conservative-BritishColumbia-MLA-stub