Ivor Davies (politician)

Ivor Roland Morgan Davies CBE (12 August 1915 – November/December 1986) was a British Liberal Party politician, journalist and United Nations Association administrator.

[3] In 1938 when Jo Grimond resigned as Liberal prospective parliamentary candidate for Aberdeenshire Central, Davies was selected to replace him for a general election expected to take place in 1939.

This duly happened, but the Conservative still retained the seat against the political climate of Neville Chamberlain and his visit to Munich to meet Adolf Hitler.

[6] Davies resumed his role as prospective candidate for Aberdeenshire Central and eventually had the chance of contesting the seat at the 1945 General Election, but came third; In 1950 he had published Trial By Ballot, a book giving his insights into the British electoral and political scene from 1918 to 1950.

He was always on the radical wing of the party and was in particular a supporter of nuclear disarmament being one time chair of Oxford CND.

During the war, Davies enlisted in the Royal Air Force and rose to Acting Flight Lieutenant, serving at home, in India and Burma where he was wounded.