Harold Stratton Davis [also known as H. Stratton Davis; and as Harold Stratton-Davis] was born in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England on 9 April 1886. After being articled to John Fletcher Trew (1856-1917) in Gloucester, he worked as an architect in Gloucester, England from 1913 until at least the late 1950s. From 1914 he was in partnership with Trew's son, Harold Fletrcher Trew (1888-1968).
It is unclear how long the partnership lasted as by the following year he was serving in the Army in World War One. In 1918 he was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry.
Following the war he resumed his career as an architect and during the 1930s he was in partnership with Charles William Yates (1882-1956) and Edward Joseph Dolman (1872-1935) in the architectural practice Stratton Davis, Yates and Dolman, later Stratton Davis & Yates, in Gloucester.
Davis specialised in church architecture and was Diocesan Architect in Gloucestershire. He designed the Congregational Church in Cam, Gloucestershire (1923); Holy Trinity Church, Longlevens, (1933–34); a memorial chapel for Christ Church on Brunswick Road, Gloucester (1950); and the new parish church of Saint Mary in Birdlip, Gloucestershire (1957). He also designed several vicarages and rectories.
Davis was a Member of the Society of Architects (MSA) and was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1925.
His address was given as Bearland House, Gloucester and Hardwicke, near Gloucester in 1914; 65, Northgate Street, Gloucester in 1923 and 1926; 12 Queen Street, Gloucester 1930 and 1939.
He died in Gloucester in November 1969. His son, David Isaac Stratton Davis (1917-2000) was also an architect. He was a partner in his father's practice from September 1935 and continued the practice after his father's death.
Deacon Street Council Schools, Gloucester; various domestic work; reconstruction work in France, in conjunction with the Ministère des Régions Liberées: Garden villages at Sermaize-les-Bains, and Parguy, Marne, etc. Town and village plans in Macedonia; Kilkis, Doiran, Lakkovikia, etc. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1923]
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
Who's Who in Architecture 1923. Edited by Frederick Chatterton. London: Architectural Press, 1923