Daniel Merddyn Scott Davies (1 March 1872 – 1 October 1951) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Yorke Peninsula from 1933 to 1941 as an independent.
[1] Davies was a postal employee at Mount Gambier for seven years, before being transferred as assistant postmaster at Glenelg in 1899, and then again transferred as postmaster at Minlaton in 1908, where he remained for the rest of his life.
He was a long-serving Justice of the Peace, had been Assistant Returning Officer for Yorke Peninsula for 21 years prior to standing for parliament and was secretary, and later long-serving auditor, of the Minlaton Institute.
He was re-elected at the 1938 election, when he was one of 14 of 39 independent lower house MPs, which as a grouping won 40 percent of the primary vote, more than either of the major parties.
[10][11][12] He was defeated by Liberal and Country League candidate Cecil Hincks at the 1941 election.