Daniel Davis

Daniel Gateward Davis (1788–1857) was an abolitionist and the inaugural Bishop of Antigua from 1842 until his death. Early life Daniel Davis was born in 1788, the youngest of six children of William and Anne Davis of St Kitts. His father was a planter. Davis began studies at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1808. There he became an abolitionist and a friend of William Wilberforce. Ministry Davis returned to the Leeward Islands and worked strongly, but quietly, for abolition in St. Kitts and Nevis. He later became a minister at St. Paul's Anglican Church in Nevis, and in 1824, became the first minister at the newly built Cottle Church.