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Title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom For other people called Baron Davies, see Baron Davies (disambiguation).

Baron Davies, of Llandinam in the County of Montgomery, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1932 for the Welsh businessman, Liberal Member of Parliament and philanthropist, David Davies. He was the grandson and namesake of the prominent industrialist David Davies Llandinam.

The second Baron Davies was the son of the first Baron and his first wife, Amy, daughter of L. T. Penman. He married Ruth, daughter of Major William Marshall Dugdale, in 1939. They had two sons. Lord Davies fought in the Second World War as a major in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was killed on the Western Front in September 1944, aged 29, only three months after succeeding his father in the barony. His three-year-old eldest son, David, inherited the barony shortly before his fourth birthday.

As of 2024, the title is held by the fourth Baron, who succeeded his father in that year.

Barons Davies (1932)

The heir presumptive is the current holder's brother, The Hon. Benjamin Michael Graham Davies (b. 1985)

Arms

Coat of arms of Baron Davies
Crest
An arm embowed Proper vested to the elbow Argent holding in the hand a miner's safety lamp Proper.
Escutcheon
Or a lion rampant Gules between two fleurs-de-lis in fess Azure on a chief Azure two pickaxes fesswise.
Motto
(The Highest Nobility Is Virtue)

References

  1. ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 1049–1050. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  2. Welsh Biography Online
  3. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
  4. Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 2280.

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