Sir Edward Rae Davson, 1st Baronet, KCMG (14 February 1875 – 6 August 1937) was a British businessman who was influential in colonial economics.
He was the managing director of Messrs. S. Davson & Co., Ltd., a prominent West Indies merchant firm.
His father was a London-based Guyana sugar merchant who operated Henry Davson & Sons.
Davson was chairman of the British Empire Producers' Organisation and President of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire, and the founder and first president of the Associated West Indian Chambers of Commerce.
[1] Davson was knighted by King George V in 1919[6] and created a baronet, of Berbice in the Colony of British Guiana,[7] on 21 January 1927 in the 1927 New Year Honours.