DAVIS, SIR JOHN, an eminent lawyer and poet, was born about the year 1570. He first distinguished himself by his poem on the Immortality of the Soul. He became attorney-general and speaker of the House of Commons in Ireland; and afterwards he 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 he was more esteemed as a scholar and a wit than as a lawyer.