effigies and coupled Tuscan columns supporting triangular pediment; Text from [1]: Sir John Davis Senior (1560-1625) Born: 8th February 1560 in the City of London Mathematician & Conspirator Died: 14th May 1625 at Pangbourne, Berkshire John Davis was an distinguished mathematician who had studied at Gloucester Hall, Oxford. Catholicism remained at strong influence at this college and it believed to have been where he converted to the Church of Rome. He became a soldier in the English Army and fought in the Spanish Wars of Queen Elizabeth I's reign under Robert Devereux, the 2nd Earl of Essex. He was knighted after the taking Cadiz in 1596, a battle in which he, apparently, made a fortune in Spanish booty. Portrait in Reading Museum see[2]. Text from jmcchurchexplorer[3]: He m1 c1593............ (rich?) widow of Sir Henry Rowse of Devon

He m2 1609 Elizabeth White

Children

1. Sir John a Royalist officer during the Civil War m Anne www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/f2k96H daughter of Sir John Suckling 1627 & 1st wife Martha www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/71267y daughter of London merchant Thomas Cranfield by Martha heiress of Vincent Randill of Sutton-at-Hone,.

(Son John & wife Anne kneel on his monument www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9R7755 )

A shepstar’s (dressmaker) son, born in Gutter lane, John went to Gloucester Hall Oxford, graduating in 1577, he became a skilled mathematician. Catholisim remained at strong influence at this college and he is believed to have converted as a "comfortable" catholic at this time. . While he was there he wrote about mathematics and astrology, and compiled with John Dee and Matthew Gwinne a volume of letters "concernyng chymical and

magical secrets". Later in London learned more about astrology from Simon Forman. Text per: 'Parishes: Pangbourne', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3, ed. P H Ditchfield and William Page (London, 1923), pp. 303-306. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp303-306 [accessed 6 January 2020].