Garfield Davies, Baron Davies of Coity
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Biography
Davies left school at 15 and worked as an electrician, serving in the Royal Air Force 1956–58. 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.[3] He retired in 1997.[3]
Davies was named CBE in 1996 and created a life peer as Baron Davies of Coity, of Penybont in the County of Mid Glamorgan on 1 October 1997.[4][5] Davies belonged to the Labour Friends of Israel lobby group.[6]
Baron Davies of Coity died on 4 March 2019, aged 83.[7]
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- 1935 births
- 2019 deaths
- Labour Co-operative life peers
- Life peers created by Elizabeth II
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- General secretaries of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
- Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress
- Labour Friends of Israel