Davis Isaac Stratton Davis was born in 1917, the son of Major
Harold Stratton Davis and his wife Amy Buckingham Webb.
He trained as an architect at the
Royal West of England Academy School of Architecture in Bristol and joined the family firm Stratton Davis & Yates. He was elected an Associate of the
RIBA
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three suppl ...
in 1940. In 1946 he won the competition to design a new council estate at
The Inch
The Inch is a district of Edinburgh, Scotland, located to the south of Inch Park in the south of the city. It is located 2 miles (3 km) south south-east of central Edinburgh. It incorporates the Inch housing development, Inch Park and the ca ...
in Edinburgh.
[Dictionary of Scottish Architects and Gloucestershire Echo, 2 November 1946]
Apart from this he followed the firm's noted skills in ecclesiastical work.
He died in 2000.
References
1917 births
2000 deaths
20th-century English architects
English ecclesiastical architects
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