Davies was born in Las Palmas, Spain, to Arthur and Ellen Mary (née Joyce) Davies, the third in the family of six children. He was ordained a priest on 13 July 1952 in the religious order of the St. Joseph's Missionary Society of Mill Hill. He was appointed prefect of Ngong, Kenya, on 9 July 1964. He was appointed bishop of Ngong on 9 December 1976 and ordained bishop on 26 February 1977. Davies retired from the diocese on 23 November 2002. He died in Freshfield, Lancashire, England on 8 January 2017, aged 92.[1]