Education
He was educated at Reading School, and London and Oxford Universities.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
He was educated at Reading School, and London and Oxford Universities.
Foreign many years he was Secretary of the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge University. The couple had no children. He had previously contested the seat in the general elections of 1959 and 1964, and also contested the surrounding seat of Cambridgeshire during a 1961 by-election.
The Davies Family History Website has details of his pedigree.
44th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was also a Labour member of Cambridge City Council for East Chesterton ward from 1954 to 1964. At the 1966 general election, he was elected Member of Parliament for Cambridge, winning the seat by just 439 votes from the Conservatives at his third attempt, after the retirement of Hamilton Kerr.
