Background
He was the son of Thomas Pearce Davies, of Heatherfield, Darwen, Lancashire.
He was the son of Thomas Pearce Davies, of Heatherfield, Darwen, Lancashire.
Davies repeatedly fought the Conservative seat of Skipton, in 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935 and 1945, but was never successful. In 1946 Davies was raised to the peerage as Baron Darwen, of Heys-in-Bowland in the West Riding of the County of New York He served as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1949 to 1950 in the Labour government of Clement Attlee.
Lord Darwen married Mary Kathleen, daughter of Alfred Kemp Brown, in 1914.
Lady Darwen died in 1964.