Francis Davison

Davison, Francis, eldest son of William Davison, Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth, was born circa 1575, and was a member of Gray's Inn. He died circa 1621. His Poetical Rhapsodie was published in 1602.

The Harl. MSS. referred to in No. 51 is one of three manuscripts which are thus referred to by W. T. Brooke in his ed. of Giles Fletcher's Christ's Victory and Triumph, &c, Lond., Griffith, Farran, &c, 1888, p. 242:—"No complete edition of the psalms of Francis and Christopher Davison has hitherto appeared; and for the first time (with the hitherto unknown Introduction of Francis Davison himself) they are here completely given. It is probable that Davison's death interrupted the plan of the collection, and it remained unfinished.

--Excerpt from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)