SHEILA MERCER DAVIES

Sheila Mercer Davies

Sheila was born 15.8.1918 in Naini Tal, Utah Pradesh. India.

Daughter of Arthur Aird Mercer Davies.

Her mother was Pearl Davies born Abingdon, Berkshire, England, daughter of Dr Arthur Venis , D.Litt. , M.A. , C.I.E. , and Emma Catherine de Hoxar.

Education:

Oak Hall, Haslemere , Surrey

Challenor School, Queen’s Gate London

Paris

London School of Electrical Domestic Science

The Triangle Secretarial College, London.

1938            Private Secretary in London to Sir John Fitzgerald. Bt, ,Knight of Kerry.

1939-1945             Codist with R.A.F. Malta

                        Intelligence work in F.A.N.Y. in Egypt and Italy (SOE)

1945-1950            Farmer in County Kerry, Ireland

                        Six months in Fleet Street on the staff of The Queen Magazine

1950-1951            Worked in War Office (intelligence) London

                        Published first novel “The Young Marchesa”

1952-1956            Worked in Foreign Office, spending two years in the Far East.

Sheila died 18.12.2000. In St Thomas’ Hospital London.

She was a compulsive hoarder. It took Susan Elizabeth Wilson months to clear her house.