Quentin Davies

The Right Honourable The Lord Davies of Stamford
Davies in 2015
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Equipment and Support
In office 5 October 2008 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	The Baroness Taylor of Bolton
Succeeded by	Peter Luff
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
In office 14 September 2001 – 11 November 2003
Leader	Iain Duncan Smith
Preceded by	Andrew MacKay
Succeeded by	David Lidington
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 7 July 2010 – 25 July 2023 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for Grantham and Stamford Stamford and Spalding (1987–97)
In office 11 June 1987 – 12 April 2010
Preceded by	Kenneth Lewis
Succeeded by	Nick Boles
Personal details
Born	(1944-05-29) 29 May 1944 (age 80) Oxford, England
Political party	Labour (since 2007)
Other political affiliations	Conservative (until 2007)
Spouse	Chantal Tamplin ​ (m. 1983)​ [1]
Alma mater	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

John Quentin Davies, Baron Davies of Stamford^[2] (born 29 May 1944) is a British Labour politician and life peer who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Grantham and Stamford from 1987 to 2010. He served as a junior defence minister in the Brown ministry from 2008 to 2010.

A Conservative until his high-profile defection in 2007, Davies was a member of Iain Duncan Smith's Shadow Cabinet from 2001 to 2003 as the Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary.