Sir Thomas Davies was a British Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician. He was the Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for the Cirencester and Tewkesbury division

Cirencester and Tewkesbury (UK Parliament constituency)

Cirencester and Tewkesbury was a parliamentary constituency in Gloucestershire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...

  of Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

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 from 1918 to 1929.

Davies was the son of William Davies of St Hilary, Cowbridge

Cowbridge

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, Glamorgan, and was educated privately. He was married in 1881 to Kate Vokes, the daughter of William Vokes, from Cardiff

Cardiff

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From 1899 to 1910 he was a member of Gloucestershire County Council for Campden

Chipping Campden

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, and was listed in 1922 an Alderman

Alderman

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 of the Council and Chairman of Cirencester War Pension Committee. He was at some point the agent for Gloucestershire Conservative Association.

He was elected at the 1918 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1918

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 as MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury, standing as a Coalition Unionist (i.e. a supporter of the Conservative-dominated coalition government led by the Liberal David Lloyd George

David Lloyd George

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). He was re-elected at the next three general elections, and retired from the House of Commons at the 1929 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1929

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He was knight

Knight

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ed in 1924.

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