Lord Davies of Stamford
John Quentin Davies was born on the 29th May 1944 in Oxford, England. He is a politician who is a member of the British Labour Party.
Political Career[edit]
After Davies had finished his education he went on to join the diplomatic service. During his time in the diplomatic service, he was appointed Third Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1967. He also became a Second Secretary at HM Embassy Moscow.
He left the diplomatic service in 1974. In 1977, he represented the Conservative Party and contested the Birmingham Ladywood by-election but he lost to the Labour Party candidate John Sever. However, in the 1987 General Election, he was elected for the Conservatives to the safe seat of Stamford and Spalding but in 1997 the seat was abolished. So Davies went on to represent the seat of Grantham and Stamford until he retired from the House of Commons at the 2010 election.
During his time in parliament he served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science Angela Rumbold. He has also served on the Treasury Committee. Under Ian Duncan Smith’s tenure as leader of the Conservative Party, he served as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland until Michael Howard took over in 2003 and he was made a member of the International Development Committee. On the 26th June, 2007 Davies made the controversial decision to switch from the Conservative Party to the Labour Party.
Education[edit]
He started his education at Dragon school, before moving on to attend the Quaker Leighton Park School, Reading. After this Davies went on to study at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. From Cambridge, he gained a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1966. He subsequently went on to study at Harvard University.
External Links[edit]
http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-davies-of-stamford/346
