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| Born | Horton Marlais Davies 10 March 1916 Port Talbot, Wales |
| Died | 11 May 2005 (aged 89) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
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Horton Marlais Davies (10 March 1916 – 11 May 2005) 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.
Davies began a professorial career in 1947 at Rhodes University, where he was hired to be part of South Africa's first program for training English-speaking Protestant clergy. He later worked for the University of Oxford as head of the Department of Church History at Mansfield College, and thereafter for Princeton University to help launch a new postgraduate education program in the Department of Religion. In 1959 he was appointed to Princeton's Henry W. Putnam endowed professorship. Across his career, Davies wrote more than thirty books, including the five-volume Worship and Theology in England. After retiring, Davies took up painting, creating at least fifty works. He died in Princeton, New Jersey.