English student and muse Michael Llewelyn Davies was BOTD in 1900. Born in London, he was the fourth of five sons of barrister Arthur Llewelyn Davies and Sylvia du Maurier. Before his birth, his elder brothers George and John had befriended the playwright J. M. Barrie, while walking in Kensington Gardens. Barrie eventually befriended Sylvia and became a surrogate family member, referred to as “Uncle Jim” by the Llewelyn Davies boys. The infant Michael was the chief model for Barrie’s literary creation Peter Pan, first appearing in Barrie’s 1904 play of the same name. Michael fell ill in the winter of 1905, prompting Barrie to stage the play for him in the family home. Barrie began writing a sequel, to be entitled Michael Pan, but abandoned the project, incorporating his “Michael” stories into his 1911 novel Peter and Wendy. After Arthur’s death in 1907 and Sylvia’s death in 1910, Barrie became legal guardian to Michael and his brothers. Michael was exceptionally close to Barrie, corresponding daily when he was sent to Eton College and bonding over George’s death during World War One. Michael attended Oxford University, where he had affairs with a number of his fellow students, including Robert Boothby, Roger Senhouse and Rupert Buxton. Michael and Buxton became inseparable, prompting a furious response from Barrie, who unsuccessfully tried to persuade Michael to end the friendship. In 1921, shortly before Michael’s 21st birthday, he and Buxton drowned in Sandford Lock on the River Thames, a few miles from Oxford. Their bodies were recovered clasped together, in what may or may not have been an accident. Michael’s death was widely reported, due to his association with Barrie and Peter Pan, with extensive speculation that they had committed suicide in a lovers’ pact. Barrie and the Llewelyn-Davies brothers accepted the suicide theory; a devastated Barrie wrote later that Michael’s death “was in a way the end of me.” Michael’s relationship with Buxton has been portrayed many times, notably in Barry Lowe’s play The Death of Peter Pan and John Logan’s Peter and Alice. The 2004 film Finding Neverland, a sentimental and de-sexualised account of Barrie’s friendship with the Llewelyn Davies boys, starred Luke Spill as the young Michael.