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8 Pleasant Row, Pleasant Villa

8 Pleasant Row Mount Pleasant, Pleasant Villa

History of 8 Pleasant Row

1913 Pleasant Villa

William Child

1921

Frederick H Langdon Davies, b 1868, retired civil servant, b Bristol

Dorothy, b 1897, elementary teacher, b Worcs

Hugh, b 1899, undergraduate Sidney Sussex Coll., b Warwicks

Davies was a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society; his work focussed on landmarks and buildings in Cambridge. A collection of his photos was acquired by the American collector, Samuel Wagstaff Jr. He sold his entire collection to the J Paul Getty Museum in 1984.

The photos taken by Davies kept by the J Paul Getty Museum can be seen here:

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/2826/frederick-h-langdon-davies-english-1868-1937/

Obituary of F H Langdon-Davies (The Photographic Journal 1937)

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