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The name Percy means "Form of PERCIVAL. Piercing the Valley" and is of French origin.
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Percy Davis (Northamptonshire cricketer)
Charles Percival Davis (24 May 1915 – 4 July 2001), known as Percy Davis, was an English cricketer active from 1935 to 1957 who played for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club. He appeared in 169 first-class matches as a right-handed batsman. He was an occasional wicket-keeper and right arm medium pace seam bowler. Davis was born in Brackley, Northamptonshire on 24 May 1915 and died in Leicester on 4 July 2001. He scored 6,363 runs in first-class cricket with a highest score of 237, one of ten centuries. He was the elder brother of Eddie Davis.
Source: Percy Davis (Northamptonshire cricketer), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Percy Davis (Kent cricketer)
Percy Vere Davis (4 April 1922 – 28 November 2018), known in later life as Philip Davis, was an English aviator and cricketer. He was born in Forest Hill in Lewisham, south-east London in 1922.
Davis joined the staff at Kent County Cricket Club in 1938, having been successful in a trial the previous year. He made his Second XI debut against Surrey Second XI before playing the whole of the 1939 season, mainly as an opening batsman. He scored 512 runs during 1939, a total only beaten by Godfrey Evans who went on to play 91 times for England.
During World War II Davis served in the Royal Air Force (RAF), reaching the rank of Flight Lieutenant. He served mainly in the Middle East and in Italy. After VE Day he played as part of a Desert Air Force cricket team in a series of matches in England, scoring a century against a side from RAF Bomber Command at Trent Bridge.
Davis opted to remain in the RAF after the war, but returned to Kent whilst on leave in 1946, making his first-class cricket debut for the side in May 1946 in a County Championship match against Derbyshire at Queen's Park, Chesterfield. He played a total of ten first-class matches during the 1946 season, six for Kent and four for Combined Services. Davis was a right-handed batsman whom Kent were willing to re-engage as a professional if he had opted to do so. He scored a total of 276 first-class runs including one century, scoring 136 for Combined Services against Oxford University.
Davis' last first-class match was for Kent against Somerset in August 1946 at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury. He also made two appearances for Kent's Second XI during the 1946 season.
After remaining in the RAF until 1955, Davis worked in the civil aviation industry, primarily for British Caledonian. As well as cricket he played golf. He died at High Bickington in Devon in November 2018 aged 96.
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