John Wingett Davies OBE (1908 – 11 September 1992) was a British company director in the fields of ship broking, aviation, and films, whose main interest was as an exhibitor in the world of cinema.
He was managing director of Davies Cinemas Ltd and chairman of British Cinematograph Theatres, Deputy Chairman of Davies and Newman, the parent company of Dan-Air, and President of the Cinema Exhibitors' Association.
In July 1928, when the Davies family was living at Coopersale Hall, Epping, his younger sister, Letitia, married F. C. Chalklin, a research physicist of Hadlow, at St Clement Danes, Strand, London,[1] and a year later his older sister Mary Frances married Geoffrey Gillam[2] and went on to have three sons.
In 1947, he was managing director of Davies Cinemas Ltd, with offices at 26–27, D'Arblay Street, London W1.
In that year, 1971, the Davies and Newman Group was floated on the London Stock Exchange, having become more important thanks to the success of its subsidiary Dan-Air.