Philip Davies (architectural historian)

Philip Hugh Davies FRAS (born August 1950) is a heritage and planning consultant and the former planning and development director for Historic England. He has written a number of books on the architectural and topographical history of India and London.

Early life
Philip Davies was born in August 1950. He was educated at Tollington Grammar School (1961–68) in Muswell Hill and then at Queen's College, University of Cambridge, where he obtained a degree in history.

Career
Davies was director of the London region of Historic England from 1997 to 2005 and then planning and development director from 2005 to 2011. He originated and set up English Heritage's buildings at risk programme in London. He now works as a heritage and planning consultant. In 2011 he was briefly interim chief executive for the Fulham Palace Trust. He has written a number of books on the architectural and topographical history of India and London.

He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, and a trustee of the Heritage of London Trust.

Davies was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to UK and Commonwealth heritage.

Selected publications

 * Splendours of the Raj: British Architecture in India 1660-1947. John Murray, 1985. ISBN 0719541158
 * Troughs and Drinking Fountains. Chatto & Windus, London, 1989. (Chatto curiosities) ISBN 0701133694
 * Penguin Guide to the Monuments of India: Vol.II Islamic, Rajput, European. Penguin, 1989. ISBN 0670808474
 * Lost London 1870–1945. Transatlantic Press, 2009.
 * Panoramas of Lost London. Transatlantic Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1907176722
 * Images of Lost London 1875–45. Atlantic Publishing, Croxley Green, 2012. ISBN 9781909242043
 * London Hidden Interiors. Atlantic Publishing, 2012. ISBN 978-0956864246
 * Lost England 1870-1930. Atlantic Publishing, 2016. ISBN 978-1909242791
 * Lost Warriors - Seagrim and Pagani of Burma - The Last Great Untold Story of WWII. Atlantic Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978-1909242852