Eddie Davies CBE (18 June 1946 – 11 September 2018) was a British businessman and philanthropist.
The Eddie and Susan Davies Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London are named in his honour.
[6] Davies wrote-off loans to Bolton which, including interest, totalled approximately £175 million.
[7] Shortly after his death, it was revealed that, four days before he died, Davies had given Bolton £5 million to help save the club from administration.
[8] He served on the boards of directors of Moonshift Investments, Sula Group, and Squarestone Brasil.
[9] Those five galleries include 200 paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, J. M. W. Turner, Sandro Botticelli, Tintoretto, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edgar Degas and Eugène Delacroix.