Sir Alfred Thomas Davies, KBE, CB, DL, JP (11 March 1861 – 21 April 1949) was a British civil servant, solicitor and local politician.
Born on 11 March 1861 at Liverpool, he attended the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, before practising as a solicitor in Liverpool from 1883 to 1907. In the meantime, he was involved in the temperance movement and sat on local government committees. From 1904 to 1907, he was a councillor on the Denbighshire County Council. Having been a member of that council's education committee, he was appointed the Permanent Secretary of the newly established Welsh Department in the national Board of Education. He retired in 1925,[1] having been appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1917 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1918.[2] He was a deputy lieutenant and magistrate for both Denbighshire and Buckinghamshire. He died on 21 April 1949.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Robert Thomas Jenkins, "Davies, Sir Alfred Thomas", Dictionary of Welsh Biography (National Library of Wales, 2001). Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ "Davies, Sir Alfred Thomas", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2021). Retrieved 2 February 2022.
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