in a suicide pact. Dangerous currents in Sandford Lasher had made the pool notorious as a drowning hazard – there were warning signs and a conspicuous 19th century memorial to previous victims. Despite this, the pair had gone swimming there before. The water was deep, but calm. Buxton was a good swimmer, but Davies had a fear of water and could not swim proficiently. A witness at the coroner's inquest reported that one man was swimming to join the other, who was sitting on a stone on the weir, but he experienced "difficulties" and the other dived in to reach him. However, the witness also reported, when he saw their heads together in the water they did not appear to be struggling. Their bodies were recovered "clasped" together the next day (sometimes misreported later as "tied together"). The coroner's conclusion was Davies had drowned accidentally, and Buxton had drowned trying to save him. The Oxford Magazine published the following in an obituary for the pair: Two House men whose loss would have been more widely and more deeply mourned, it would be impossible to find. They were intimate friends, and in their death they were not divided. It is we who must learn to live without them. Barrie wrote a year later that Davies's death "was in a way the end of me." Davies's brothers Peter and Nico each later acknowledged suicide as a likely explanation, as did Barrie. Although Boothby, in 1976, described Buxton as having "an almost suicidal streak about him," he did not take a definite stand on whether Buxton had died trying to save Davies and/or impulsively joined him going under, or whether they had in fact died as the result of a suicide pact. In media In the 1978 BBC mini-series The Lost Boys, he is portrayed at various ages by Sebastian Buss, Paul Spurrier, Alexander Buss, Charles Tatnall, and William Relton. The 1988 play The Death of Peter Pan (by Australian playwright Barry Lowe) is based on Davies's life and focuses on his relationship with Rupert Buxton. In the 2004 film Finding Neverland, he is portrayed by Luke Spill. In the 2013 play "Peter and Alice", he appears in a scene with Barrie, who disapproves of Davies's relationship with Buxton. Shortly after, Davies commits suicide. He is portrayed by Stefano Braschi. References External links People educated at Eton College Michael Llewelyn Davies, Michael Llewelyn