title: Jonathan Davies (English priest)
text: # Jonathan Davies (English priest)
  
  Jonathan Davies FRS (c. 1736 – 1809) was an English schoolmaster and Anglican priest, a Canon of Windsor from 1782 to 1791.
  
  ## Career
  
  He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, receiving an MA in 1736.
  
  He was appointed:
  
  * Headmaster of Eton College, Berkshire 1773–1792
  * Rector of Scaldwell, Northamptonshire, 1774
  * Provost of Eton College, 1791–1809
  
  He was appointed to the eighth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1782 and held the canonry until 1791. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1789.
  
  He died in 1809 and was buried at Eton College chapel.
  
  