Ernest Davies

Dr Ernest Arthur Davies MInstP (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.

Early life Davies was born in October 1926, the son of Dan Davies and Ada (née Smith) in Nuneaton. 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 discharged on medical grounds in 1943. He attended Westminster Training College in London from 1946 to 1948, and was a teacher at Foxford School in Coventry from 1948 to 1950.

From 1950 to 1954, Davies was at St Salvator's College, part of the University of St Andrews, from which he received a first class honours degree in Physics. He also won the Neil Arnott Prize and was a Carnegie Scholar. Davies then studied at St John's College, Cambridge. He gained a PhD from Cambridge in 1959, the same year he became a Member of the Institute of Physics. He did research in superconductivity at the Royal Society's Mond Laboratory in Cambridge and was an American Enterprise Institute Research Scientist from 1957 to 1963. That year, he became a lecturer in Physics at the University of Manchester's Faculty of Technology, a role he held until 1966. For the 1978 elections, he moved to Dulwich's Lyndhurst ward, in the same borough. He remained a councillor until 1982. From 1970 to 1981, Davies was a Management Selection Consultant at MSL. Davies lectured in Business Studies at the Hammersmith and West London College from 1981 until 1987, the year in which he retired. He was made a Chartered Physicist in 1986.