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Fox-Davies bore the Davies arms with a crescent for [[cadency]], and intended to quarter them with the Fox arms after his mother's death; but as she outlived him, dying in 1937, this was not possible.<ref name=lattimore/> He also considered obtaining grants to his wife's families of Crookes and Proctor, which would entitled his children to additional quarterings, but at this point he no longer had the money for further grants of arms.<ref name=lattimore/> He did obtain, in 1921, the grant of a [[heraldic badge|badge]], which consisted of a ''crown vallary gules''.<ref name=armfam/> His motto was ''Da Fydd'', Welsh for "good faith" and a pun on the name Davies.
In addition to his writings on heraldry, he published a number of works of fiction, including detective stories such as ''The Dangerville Inheritance'' (1907), ''The Mauleverer Murders'' (1907) and ''The Duplicate Death'' (1910).<ref name=Dickins>{{cite book|title=An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire|year=1987|last=Dickins|first=Gordon|publisher=Shropshire Libraries|page=32}}</ref> He authored the article on "Heraldry" in the ''Catholic Encyclopedia''.<ref name=ce>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924063262053 | title=The Catholic Encyclopedia and its makers | publisher=[[The Encyclopedia Press]] | year=1917 | location=New York | pages=60}}{{PD-notice}}</ref>
Politically [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]], Fox-Davies "quite hopelessly" stood for election as a member of parliament for [[Merthyr Tydfil (UK Parliament constituency)|Merthyr Tydfil]] in 1910, 1923, and 1924.<ref name=whowho/> He was, however, successfully elected as a member of [[Metropolitan Borough of Holborn|Holborn Borough Council]] in London.<ref name=obit/><ref name=whowho/>
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[[Category:Members of the Inner Temple]]
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