George Maitland Lloyd Davies (30 April 1880 – 16 December 1949) was a Welsh pacifist and Member of Parliament for the University of Wales.
Davies, who had originally volunteered as an officer in the Territorial Army, but was imprisoned during World War I as a conscientious objector, was the grandson of a noted Welsh preacher, John Jones, Talysarn. George's brother, John Glyn Davies, was a poet and author.
In 1923 he was elected Member of Parliament for the University of Wales, as an Independent Christian Pacifist, but after the election took the Labour whip, although he never joined any political party. In 1924 standing as n Independent Christian Pacifist candidate, he lost the seat to the Liberal Ernest Evans. Thereafter Davies became a Calvinistic Methodist (Presbyterian) minister in Tywyn. In 1939 he became President of the pacifist organisation, Heddychwyr Cymru, closely associated with the Peace Pledge Union, of which he served as Chair 1946-1949.
He suffered with depression throughout his life, and in 1949 he took his own life in Denbigh Hospital.
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| Preceded by Thomas Arthur Lewis |
Member of Parliament for University of Wales 1923 – 1924 |
Succeeded by Ernest Evans |