Terence Anthony Gordon Davis CMG PC (5 January 1938 – 9 December 2024) was a British Labour Party politician and businessman.

[2] At the 1970 general election, Davis stood unsuccessfully in the Conservative-held Bromsgrove constituency, finishing second of two candidates with 41.5% of the vote.

[4] The sitting MP, James Dance, died the following year, and Davis won the resulting by-election.

In 2004 he was elected Secretary General of the Council of Europe,[3] and announced his intention to stand down from the UK parliament by applying for the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds.

[5] Wikileaks "cablegate" revelations disclosed that the US, unhappy about his criticisms of the US's rendition program, regarded him as an "unpopular lame duck".