Lost Boys: The Deaths of Michael Llewelyn Davies & Rupert Buxton

How exactly did Michael Llewelyn Davies (1900-1921) and Rupert Buxton (1900-1921) die? Drowned in Sandford Lock in May 1921, the two young scholarly men were planning to go to Paris and Norway. What stood in their plans? Was it Davies' guardian J. M. Barrie, who insisted Michael was "The One"? Was it a suicide pact due to a premonition years earlier in Buxton's 1915 poem? Or was it simply an accidental drowning as the inquest ruled?

Sources:

Nicholas McAuley, Et In Arcadia Ego: Rupert Errol Victor Buxton (2007)

Piers Dudgeon, Captivated: J. M. Barrie, Daphne du Maurier and the Dark Side of Neverland (2008)

J.M. Barrie, Tommy and Grizel (1900) (see https://www.bartleby.com/library/readersdigest/1898.html )

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