* Kenneth Gordon Davies, 70, a historian and expert on the American Revolution, suffered a stroke and died on Feb. 17 in Bristol, England. His 21-volume "Documents of the American Revolution, 1770-1783," published between 1971-1982, used previously unavailable documents held at the Public Record Office where he began his career in 1947. He taught at the London School of Economics before moving in 1952 to New College, Oxford University. He left Oxford in 1963 for Bristol and retired in 1969. In 1977, he was appointed to the Erasmus Smith Chair of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin.