1921: An Adopted Son of the Creator of âPeter Panâ Drowns in a Bathing Pool When younger, Michael Llewellyn Davies was one of the children to whom J.M. Barrie would tell fairy tales, which led to the iconic stories about the boy who wouldnât grow up. By The International Herald Tribune May 21, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Image Credit...International Herald Tribune (By Special Leased Wire.) LONDON, Friday. â There is something of the wistful pathos of his own imaginings in the tragedy which has darkened the home of Sir James Barrie. Michael Llewellyn Davies and Rupert Buxton, the younger son of the late Sir Thomas V. Buxton, were drowned near the Sanford bathing pool at Oxford yesterday. The two undergraduates were almost inseparable. Davies was twenty years of age, Buxton twenty-two.