Sunday, 6 May 2018
1905 David Davies
Constituency : Denbigh 1918-22
David won the new seat of Denbigh. He received the coupon and crushed the former Liberal MP Edward John in a straight fight with Labour.
David was educated at Llandovery College. He went into the textiles business in Manchester. He was a philanthropist and local landowner who gave land for the building of a tuberculosis sanatorium. He was a Denbighshire county councillor.
David was knighted in 1918.
David never spoke in the Commons.
David became proprietor of a Welsh language journal.
Having turned 70, David stood down in 1922.
He died in 1934 aged 81.
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