George Llewelyn Davies (20 July 1893 â€" 15 March 1915) was the eldest
son of Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. Along with his four younger
brothers, George was the inspiration for playwright J. M. Barrie's
characters of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. The character of Mr. George
Darling was named after him. He was killed in action in the First
World War. He was the first cousin of the English writer Daphne du
Maurier.Davies (the family only used the double surname Llewelyn
Davies on official occasions) and his brother Jack met Barrie during
their regular outings to Kensington Gardens, with their nurse Mary
Hodgson. As the oldest (he was four years old when he met Barrie) he
featured most prominently in the early storytelling and play
adventures from which the writer drew ideas for Barrie's works around
that time about young boys. He and Jack (and to a lesser extent Peter)
were featured in a photo storybook The Boy Castaways which Barrie made
during a shared holiday at Barrie's Black Lake Cottage in 1901.In the
1904 play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, Peter Pan is
roughly 10 â€" the same age that Davies was when Barrie began writing
the play in 1903. Barrie reported taking some of the characterisation
of Peter and individual Lost Boys from things Davies and his younger
brothers said or did. For example, in response to Barrie's oral tales
about babies who died and went to live in Neverland, the boy
reportedly exclaimed, "To die will be an awfully big adventure"; this
became one of Peter Pan's most memorable lines.
George Llewelyn Davies Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter
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