Philip Davies

Philip Andrew Davies (born 5 January 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shipley in West Yorkshire. He is the most rebellious currently serving Conservative MP, having voted against the Tory whip 120 times and has been criticised for his use of the filibuster to "kill off legislation he doesn’t like".

Early life

Born in Doncaster, he was educated at the Old Swinford Hospital school, Stourbridge, and the University of Huddersfield (until 1992 the Huddersfield Polytechnic) where he was awarded a 2:1 BA Hons degree in History and Political Studies in 1993. He joined the Conservative Party in 1988. He worked at Asda from September 1993 to May 2005, first as a Customer Services Manager and later as a Marketing Manager. He has also worked at Marilyn Davies Bookmakers and Mark Jarvis Bookmakers.

Parliamentary career

He unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of Colne Valley at the 2001 general election and was defeated by the sitting Labour MP Kali Mountford by 4,639 votes.

Philip Davies (cricketer)

Philip Havelock Davies (30 August 1893 – 30 January 1930) was an English cricketer active from 1913 to 1927 who played for Sussex. He was born in Brighton and died in Catterick Camp. He appeared in 27 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm slow. He scored 286 runs with a highest score of 55 and took 98 wickets with a best performance of six for 59.

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Philip Davies (disambiguation)

Philip Davies (born 1972) is a British politician.

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Philip Davies (priest)

The Ven. Philip Bertram Davies (13 July 1933 -1 February 2005) was the Archdeacon of St Albans in the Church of England from 1987 until 1998.

Davies was born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at Lancing College and after an earlier career as a tea planter he entered Ripon College Cuddesdon to study for the priesthood. He was ordained in 1964 and began his career with a curacy at St John the Baptist, Atherton. He was Vicar at St Mary Magdalene, Eccles from 1966 to 1971; and Rector of St Philip with St Stephen, Salford from then until 1976. After this he was vicar of Christchurch, Radlett and Rural Dean of Aldenham before his years as an Archdeacon.

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