Ernest Davies (Stretford MP)

Dr Ernest Arthur Davies MInstP CPhys JP (25 October 1926 – 8 March 2020) was a British Labour Party politician.

He served for one term as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stretford in North West England from 1966 to 1970, when he was defeated.

He was educated at Coventry Junior Technical College, before joining the RAF during the Second World War as an Aircraft Apprentice in 1942.

He was also part of the Parliamentary Delegation to the 24th General Assembly of the United Nations (a UK Representative on the 4th Committee).

[1] He lost his seat at the 1970 general election, which saw the Conservatives return to government; his successor was Winston Churchill, grandson of the former Prime Minister.

Davies lectured in Business Studies at the Hammersmith and West London College from 1981 until 1987, the year in which he retired.

[1] Davies also made contributions to the Proceedings of the Royal Society and the Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids.