Garfield Davies, Baron Davies of Coity

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David Garfield Davies, Baron Davies of Coity , CBE ( June 24, 1935 - March 4, 2019 ) was a British union leader.

Life

Davies worked as an electrician from 1950. From 1956 to 1958 he served in the Royal Air Force . From 1969 he was a full-time union official at the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) . He was able to advance professionally within this union until he became its general secretary in 1986 . He held this post until 1997.

In 1996 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 1997 he was promoted to the status of a life peer for the Co-operative Party with the title Baron Davies of Coity , of Penybont in the County of Mid Glamorgan .

Davies was married and had 4 children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Lord Garfield Davies, a Bramhall Resident RIP. Obituary on ilovebramhall.com, March 5, 2019 (English). Retrieved March 6, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b David Garfield Davies, Baron Davies of Coity on thepeerage.com , accessed August 17, 2015.
  4. ↑ Biography on debretts.com ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on October 6, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.debretts.com
  5. ^ Portrait on parliament.uk accessed on October 6, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Davies, Garfield, Baron Davies of Coity
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davies, David Garfield, Baron Davies of Coity (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British trade unionist, Life Peer
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1935
DATE OF DEATH 5th March 2019