DAVIS, SIR JOHN, an eminent lawyer and poet, born about the year 1570. He first distinguished himself by his poem Nosce Teipsum, on the Immortality of the Soul. He became attorney-general, and speaker of the house of commons in Ireland; and afterwards was appointed lord chief justice of the court of King's Bench in England, but died before his installation, in 1626. He published many law tracts; but was esteemed more as a scholar and a wit than as a lawyer.