James Edward Davis  James Edward Davis (1817 - 1887) was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1842, was stipendiary magistrate at Stoke upon Trent from 1864 to 1870, was police magistrate at Sheffield from 1870 to 1874, and was a friend of Leigh Hunt. Davis was the author of the following works:  He was, with Robert Richard Tighe, joint author of the "Annals of Windsor" (1858).