Harold Hinchcliffe Davies [also known as Harold Cliffe Davies]was born in 1900 and was the son of Harold Edward Davies (1878-1952), a Liverpool architect who specialised in the design of public houses. In 1925 he joined his father's practice. He studied at Liverpool University School of Architecture in 1919-20. In 1925 he joined his father's practice and, like his father, designed pubs and licensed premises.
Davies was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1931. His address was given as 3 Chapel Street, Liverpool and 107 Old Chester Road, Birkenhead, Cheshire in 1939; and 7 Waterford Road, Birkenhead, Cheshire in 1960.
By the early 1960s his business had run in to financial difficulties and on the verge of bankruptcy, he committed suicide by throwing himself off Mount Snowden in Llamberis, Caernarvonshire, Wales on 1 September 1960
Davies was the father-in-law of the novelist Beryl Bainbridge. His brother, Anthony Austin Irvine Davies (1923-2015) was also an architect.
The Blackburne Arms, Catharine Street, Liverpool; The Clock Inn, London Road, Liverpool; The Clubmor Hotel, Townsend Lane, Liverpool; The Gardeners' Arms, Broadgreen, Liverpool; The Bridge Inn , Childwall Valley Road, Liverpool; and the Jolly Miller, West Derby, Liverpool.. He was also responsible for the rebuilding of the Liverpool Corn Exchange which was destroyed by bombing during World War Two.
King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge: Love By All Sorts of Means, A Biography. London: Bloomsbury, 2016 [The novelist Beryl Bainbridge (1932-2012) was married to the artist Austin Howard Davies (1926-2012), son of Harold Hinchcliffe Davies]
Sharples, Joseph, Powers, Alan and Shippobottom, Michael. Charles Reilly & the Liverpool School of Architecture 1904-1933. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 25 October 1996 - 2 February 1997. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1996 p. 169 [Contains other references to Davies, unfortunately, the catalogue is not indexed]