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Percy Llewellyn Davies
5 October 1903, Bridgend WAL ─ 15 April 1974, Edinburgh SCO
From Scottish Chess No. 35, July 1974:
Scottish chess players will regret to learn of the death at Easter of Percy Davies, the first editor of this bulletin.A senior civil servant, he came to Edinburgh from London in 1956 and rapidly established himself not only as a fine player and capable organiser, but as a kind and considerate friend to all who knew him.
As captain of the Civil Service "A" team in the years to 1964, he led them twice to the championship of the Edinburgh and District League, and in 1962 to the final of the Richardson Cup in which they were narrowly defeated by the Edinburgh Chess Club. In the following years he continued to give valuable service to the Civil Service Club, and to the Edinburgh League as a vice-president, but he will possibly be best remembered for his work organising and editing the first issues of the S.C.A. Bulletin. When the council inited him to undertake this project he readily responded: the new venture was an immediate success and in the words of John Glendinning, his successor, "rapidly developed from a simple news sheet into a magazine circulating widely in Scotland and abroad". At the same, as a co-opted member of Council, his tact and wise advice were of great value to his fellow members and to Scottish chess in general.
A sincere and modest man, he seldom reported his own games.....
Scottish chess is the poorer without him and we send our condolences to Mrs Davies and his family. (Eric Allan)
Alan McGowan
Historian/Archivist, Chess Scotlandupdated 6/5/2022