Peter llewellyn davies biography of abraham

British publisher, friend of J.M. Barrie (–)

Peter Llewelyn DaviesMC (25 February &#; 5 April ) was the middle of five sons of Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, one of the Llewelyn Davies boys befriended and later informally adopted by J.

M. Barrie. Barrie publicly identified him as the source of the name for the title character in his play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.

He was awarded the Military Cross after serving as an officer in World War I, and in founded the publishing house Peter Davies Ltd.

He struggled emotionally after the war, and eventually ended his life by suicide.

Peter llewellyn davies biography of abraham

He was the first cousin of the English writer Daphne du Maurier.

Childhood

Davies was an infant in a pram when Barrie befriended his older brothers George and Jack during outings in Kensington Gardens, with their nurse Mary Hodgson.

Barrie's original description of Peter Pan in The Little White Bird () was as a newborn baby who had escaped to Kensingto