David Garfield Davies

David Garfield Davies    (labour leader)
Born	24 June 1935
General Secretary of USDAW In office 1986 - 1997  Representative to the AFL-CIO In office 1993 Employer Trades Union Congress Preceded by David Garfield Davies Succeeded by David Garfield Davies

(David) Garfield Davies was created Lord Davies of Coity in 1997.

Born in 1935, Lord Davies is a Labour Co-operative peer in the House of Lords and a former trade union leader. Lord Davies left school at 15 and worked as an electrician, serving in the Royal Air Force from 1956-1958. In 1969 he became a full time trade union official with USDAW and rose through the ranks, becoming General Secretary of the union in 1986. He retired in 1997.

• Councils, public bodies: Councillor, Penybont RDC 1966-69;
• JP, Ipswich 1972-78
• Name, style and title: Raised to the peerage as Baron Davies of Coity, of Penybont in the County of Mid Glamorgan 1997

Affiliations

Lords Select Committees

Member Ecclesiastical Joint Committee 2005-

All-party groups (office-holding)

• Chair Cayman Islands Group 2001-;

Vice-chair Built Environment Group 2002-;

Secretary

Housing, Care and Support Group 2004-, Aluminium Industry Group 2005-; Vice-chair Kidney Group 2005-; Treasurer Jazz Appreciation Group 2005-;

Vice-chair

Furniture Industry Group 2006-, Roofing Industry 2007-

Countries of interest

British Overseas Territories

International bodies

Member:

• Inter-Parliamentary Union 1997-,
• Commonwealth Parliamentary Association 1997-

• Built Environment All Party Parliamentary Group
• Labour Friends of Israel

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