deaths
May 11, 2005
Horton Davies, Welsh minister and historian (born 1916)
Horton Davies
Horton Marlais Davies was a Welsh Protestant minister, historian of Christianity, and painter. After receiving degrees from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Oxford, he became the minister of Wallington and Carshalton Congregational Church in London in 1942, holding that position through World War II. From 1945 to 1946, he worked in Germany as a director of education for the YMCA, affiliated with the British Army of the Rhine.
May 11
May 11 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 234 days remain until the end of the year.