page_title: Caroline Rhys Davids
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Caroline Rhys Davids / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Lieut. A. P. F. Rhys Davids, D.S.O., M.C. by William Orpen
context_page_description: Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids was a British writer and translator. She made a contribution to economics before becoming widely known as an editor, translator, and interpreter of Buddhist texts in the Pāli language. She was honorary secretary of the Pāli Text Society from 1907, and its president from 1923 to 1942.
context_section_description: Caroline Augusta Foley married Thomas William Rhys Davids in 1894. They had three children: Vivien Brynhild Caroline Foley Rhys Davids (1895-1978), Arthur Rhys Davids (1897-1917), and Nesta Enid (1900-1973).
  Vivien won the Clara Evelyn Mordan Scholarship to St Hugh's College, Oxford in 1915, later serving as a Surrey County Councillor, and receiving an MBE in 1973. Arthur was a gifted scholar and a decorated World War I fighter ace, but was killed in action in 1917. Neither Vivien nor Nesta married or had children.
  Rhys Davids died suddenly in Chipstead, Surrey on 26 June 1942. She was 84.
caption: The fighter ace Arthur Rhys Davids. He died in action on 23 October 1917, aged just twenty.
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