Ifor Davies was a Welsh Labour Party politician.

Davies was educated at Gowerton

Gowerton

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 School, Swansea

Swansea

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 Technical College and Ruskin College, Oxford

Ruskin College, Oxford

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. He was an industrial personnel officer and served as a councillor on Glamorgan

Glamorgan

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 County Council

County council

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, representing Gowerton 1958-61. Prior to election to Parliament, he was Agent to his predecessor, Rt Hon David Grenfell

David Grenfell

David Rhys Grenfell PC, CBE, LlD was a British Member of Parliament. He represented the Gower constituency for the Labour Party from 1922 to 1959.-Early life:...

. He married Doreen (Griffiths) and had two children, Wyn and Janet. Wyn has a distinguished musical career being Director of Music with New Zealand Opera.

Davies was Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Gower

Gower (UK Parliament constituency)

Gower is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament , using the first-past-the-post voting system....

 from 1959 until he died in office in 1982. He was succeeded by Gareth Wardell

Gareth Wardell

Gareth Lodwig Wardell is a British Labour politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Gower in a 1982 by-election, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1997 general election....

. Under Harold Wilson

Harold Wilson

James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, FSS, PC was a British Labour Member of Parliament, Leader of the Labour Party. He was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s, winning four general elections, including a minority government after the...

, Davies was a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and Welsh whip

Whip (politics)

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 from 1964 to 1966 and a junior minister at the Welsh Office

Welsh Office

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 from 1966 to 1969. He was also a former Chairman of the Welsh Grand Committee and Member of the Speaker's Panel of Chairmen. In 1971, Davies was one of the sixty nine Labour MPs who defied the Labour Whip to vote in favour of entry to the EEC. He campaigned for a 'No' vote in the 1978 referendum in Wales on the establishment of a Welsh Assembly, along with other members of the 'Gang of Six', Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock

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, Leo Abse

Leo Abse

Leopold Abse was a Welsh lawyer, politician and gay rights campaigner. He was a Welsh Labour Member of Parliament for nearly 30 years, and was noted for promoting private member's bills to decriminalise male homosexual relations and liberalise the divorce laws...

, Donald Anderson, Alfred Evans (politician) and Ioan Evans

Ioan Evans

Ioan Lyonel Evans was a British politician. He served as a Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 until his death.-Early life:...

. Throughout his tenure as MP, he was sponsored by the white-collar trade union APEX.

Ifor Davies was a man of Christian principles who, for many years, was Secretary of Tabernacle Chapel, Gowerton, continuing in that role whilst a Member of Parliament. He was also a former Chairman of the Council of Swansea University. He resided at Ty Pentwyn, Three Crosses on Gower.