1866 - 1937 Hymnal Title: Chalice Hymnal Translator (st. 2) of "Of the Father's Love Begotten (Of Eternal Love Begotten)" in Chalice Hymnal Davis, Robert Furley, M.A., was born Jan. 22, 1866, at Nottingham, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1888, M.A. 1896). He is now (1906) senior classical master at Campbell College, Belfast, Ireland. He is the author of seven translations in The Hymns of Prudentius, Translated by B. Martin Pope and R. F. Davis, 1905, one of which is in The English Hymnal, 1906, No. 613. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
R. F. Davis