Henry Davey

Henry Davey (Brighton, 1853 – Hove, 1929) was an English musicologist and pianist devoted chiefly to British music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1874 and 1877, where his principal teachers were Jadassohn, Reinecke, Richter and Wiedenbach.

On returning to Brighton, he combined journalism with teaching until 1903. In 1901 he catalogued the library of the Royal Academy of Music and, together with J. S. Shedlock, located Purcell's manuscript of The Fairy Queen.

His principal work, History of English Music, published in London in 1895, is based on his own research and offers information on almost all the early manuscripts and printed books then known, as well as a study of the Puritan attitude towards music.