Quentin Davies
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The Right Honourable The Lord Davies of Stamford |
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| Minister of State for Defence Equipment and Support | |
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In office 5 October 2008 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Taylor |
| Succeeded by | Peter Luff (Defence Equipment, Support and Technology) |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | |
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In office 14 September 2001 – 11 November 2003 |
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| Leader |
Iain Duncan Smith Michael Howard |
| Preceded by | Andrew MacKay |
| Succeeded by | David Lidington |
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Member of Parliament for Grantham and Stamford Stamford and Spalding (1987–1997) |
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In office 12 June 1987 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Kenneth Lewis |
| Succeeded by | Nicholas Boles |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
29 May 1944 Oxford, England |
| Political party |
Conservative (Before 2007) Labour (2007–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Chantal (1983–present) |
| Alma mater | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
John Quentin Davies, Baron Davies of Stamford (born 29 May 1944) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Grantham and Stamford from 1987 to 2010. Originally elected as a Conservative, he defected to Labour on 26 June 2007. Davies announced in 2010 that he would not stand for re-election in the coming general election. At the general election of 6 May 2010, Nick Boles, a Conservative, was elected in his place. On 28 May 2010 it was announced he would be made a life peer in the Dissolution Honours List.
Quentin Davies was born in Oxford, the son of a doctor who had served in the Royal Air Force in the Second World War. He went to a preparatory school in Oxford, the Dragon School, before attending the Quaker Leighton Park School, at Reading, then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1966. After graduating he became a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard.
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