George Maitland Lloyd Davies
- George Maitland Lloyd Davies
George Maitland Lloyd Davies (30 April 1880 - 16 December 1949) was a Welsh pacifist and Member of Parliament for the University of Wales.
Davies, who who had originally volunteered as an officer in the Territorial Army, but was imprisoned during World War I as a conscientious objector, was the grandson of a noted Welsh preacher, John Jones (Talysarn). George's brother, John Glyn Davies, was a poet and author.
In 1923 he was elected Member of Parliament for University of Wales, but in 1924 lost the seat to Ernest Evans. Thereafter Davies became a Calvinistic Methodist (Presbyterian) minister. In 1939 he became President of the pacifist organisation, Heddychwyr Cymru, closely associated with the Peace Pledge Union, of which he served as Chair 1946-1949.
He was overtaken by depression in 1949, and took his own life.
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