| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Davies of Coity | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | CBE |
| Office12: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
| Term Start12: | 1 October 1997 |
| Term End12: | 4 March 2019 Life Peerage |
| Birth Date: | 24 June 1935 |
| Death Date: | 4 March 2019 (aged 83) |
| Party: | Labour Co-operative |
David Garfield Davies, Baron Davies of Coity, (24 June 1935[1] - 4 March 2019 [2]) was a Labour Co-operative peer in the House of Lords and a former trade union leader.
Davies left school at 15 and worked as an electrician, serving in the Royal Air Force 1956–58. In 1969 he became a full-time trade union official with USDAW and rose through the ranks, becoming General Secretary of the union in 1986.[3] He retired in 1997.[3]
Davies was named CBE in 1996 and created a life peer as Baron Davies of Coity, of Penybont in the County of Mid Glamorgan on 1 October 1997.[4] Davies belonged to the Labour Friends of Israel lobby group.[5]
Baron Davies of Coity died on 4 March 2019, aged 83.[6]
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