Garfield Davies, Baron Davies of Coity
Politician
1935 –
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Who is Garfield Davies, Baron Davies of Coity?
Garfield Davies, Baron Davies of Coity, CBE, is a Labour Co-operative peer in the House of Lords and a former trade union leader.
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. He retired in 1997.
Davies was named CBE in 1996 and created a life peer as Baron Davies of Coity, of Penybont in the County of Mid Glamorgan in 1997.
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