Michael Llewelyn Davies (16 June 1900 â€" 19 May 1921) was â€" along
with his four brothers â€" the inspiration for J. M. Barrie's
characters Peter Pan, the Darling brothers, and the Lost Boys. Late in
life, his only surviving brother Nico described him as "the cleverest
of us, the most original, the potential genius." He died in ambiguous
circumstances, drowning with a close friend â€" and possible lover â€"
just short of his 21st birthday. He was a first cousin of English
writer Daphne du Maurier.Davies was the fourth of five sons of Arthur
and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. He was born three years after Barrie
became friends with his older brothers and mother in 1897. He and his
eldest brother George were the boys closest to Barrie, and he is
widely reported as the individual who most influenced the portrayal of
Peter Pan in the 1911 novel based on the play. He was an infant as
Barrie was writing the first appearance of Peter Pan as a newborn in
The Little White Bird. He was four-and-a-half-years-old when Peter
Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up debuted in December 1904. The
following winter, he was ill for several months, so in February 1906,
Barrie and producer Charles Frohman brought scenery and some of the
cast to the family's home in Berkhamsted to perform the play for him.
Barrie began writing a sequel to Peter Pan about the boy's brother, to
be entitled Michael Pan, but instead incorporated this material (such
as the hero's nightmares) into the novel Peter and Wendy.The statue of
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, erected in secret during the night of
30 April 1912, was meant to be modelled upon photographs of Michael
Llewelyn Davies at the age of six, dressed as the character. However,
sculptor George Frampton used a different child as his model, leaving
Barrie very disappointed with the result. "It doesn't show the devil
in Peter," the writer said. Michael Llewelyn Davies Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter