C.T. Mervyn Davies died on Sunday, 30 April 2017, after a short final illness, aged 83. He was at the forefront of research into human exercise physiology and part of a global network of like-minded scientists from the mid-60’s onwards. He was appointed founding Chair in Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Birmingham in 1986 and transformed a respected Physical Education department into a School that would become the world-ranked Sport and Exercise Sciences School it now is.