Peter Llewelyn Davies

Peter Llewelyn Davies
Born(1897-02-25)25 February 1897
London, England
Died5 April 1960(1960-04-05) (aged 63)
London, England
OccupationPublisher
Known forFoster son of J. M. Barrie
Spouse
(m. 1931)
Children3
Parent(s)Arthur Llewelyn Davies
Sylvia du Maurier
Military career
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Battles/warsWorld War I
AwardsMilitary Cross

Peter Llewelyn Davies MC (25 February 1897 – 5 April 1960) was the middle of five sons of Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, one of the Llewelyn Davies boys befriended and later informally adopted by J. M. Barrie. Barrie publicly identified him as the source of the name for the title character in his 1904 play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.

He was awarded the Military Cross after serving as an officer in World War I, and in 1926 founded the publishing house Peter Davies Ltd. He struggled emotionally after the war, and eventually ended his life by suicide.

He was the first cousin of the English writer Daphne du Maurier.


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