The late Simon Davey
Sadly Simon Davey died in January 2024. This website will stay up as a record of his life and work until December 2024, when the domain name will not be renewed, although some of the material will go across to Tilia Publishing UK at that time.
His books will remain available on the Tilia Publishing UK website and two that he was working on in the months before his death will be published under that imprint:
Is No Problem 2nd revised edition Summer 2024
A Force for Nature: a Biographical Memoir of Dr Francis Rose Summer? 2025
The contact email is not working for this domain but if you would like to make contact please use amanda@tiliapublishinguk.co.uk which will reach Amanda Davey, Simon's wife.
His botanical expertise included:
- Lichens,
- Higher Plants,
- Bryophytes, and
- Charophytes
Insects were also a feature of the work undertaken and areas of expertise included:
- Butterflies and Moths,
- Dragonflies,
- Grasshoppers and Crickets,
- as well as Hoverflies
Simon Davey undertook many specialist lichen surveys, but ecological evaluation of potential development sites constituted a considerable proportion of hiswork.
Simon Davey travelled extensively, both as a leader of Natural History Holidays and as a Natural History Lecturer on board cruise ships. These activities took him to the Arctic, Central and South America, Central Asia and the Middle East as well as the Baltic and the Galapagos Islands.
As a naturalist he also visited France, Spain (including the Picos de Europa, the Central Sierras, the Sierra Nevada, the Spanish Pyrenees, Mallorca and the Canary Islands), Greece (including Corfu and Crete), Turkey, Southern USA, Canada and the Falkland Islands.
Simon Davey was also a proficient photographer with a broad range of subject matter. A section on photography is on this website.