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Davies was the eldest son of David Davies, 2nd Baron Davies, and Ruth Dugdale, daughter of William Marshall Dugdale. He succeeded in the barony at the age of three after his father was killed in the Second World War. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, and later became a chartered engineer.
He married Ruth, daughter of Major William Marshall Dugdale, in 1939. They had two sons. Lord Davies fought in the Second World War as a major in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was killed on the Western Front in September 1944, aged 29, only three months after succeeding his father in the barony. His three-year-old eldest son, David, inherited ...
David Davies, 1st Baron Davies FRGS (11 May 1880 – 16 June 1944) was a Welsh Liberal Party politician and public benefactor who was MP for Montgomeryshire from 1906 to 1929. He was a grandson of the great Welsh industrialist David Davies .
Baron Crathorne, of Crathorne in the North Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [1] It was created on 15 July 1959 for the Conservative politician and former Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries , Sir Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baronet . [ 1 ]
The present Dugdale baronet is Sir William Matthew Stratford Dugdale, who inherited his father's title in 2014. The family seat is Merevale Hall , Warwickshire . The Dugdale baronetcy , of Crathorne in the North Riding of the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 31 January 1945 for Thomas Dugdale .
In manuscript and printed sources dated before 1650 his name consistently appears as 'Andrew' or 'Andrewe'. In 1676 Sir William Dugdale (1605–1686) gave an account of him in The Baronage of England, [3] partly based on information from 'Thomas, late Lord Windsor deceased' (6th Lord Windsor, died 1642), [4] in which he is called 'Andrews' Windsor, Andrews having been the maiden name of Sir ...
Thomas Lionel Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne, TD, PC (20 July 1897 – 26 March 1977), known as Sir Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baronet, from 1945 to 1959, was a British Conservative Party politician. He resigned as a government minister over the Crichel Down Affair , often quoted as a classic example of the convention of individual ministerial ...
Gwendoline Davies was born at Llandinam, daughter of Edward Davies and his wife Mary, who was the daughter of Evan Jones, a Calvinistic Methodist minister. [1] Edward was the only son of the industrialist and philanthropist David Davies. Gwendoline's brother David Davies, 1st Baron Davies, was elevated to the Peerage in 1932 and her sister was ...