Alan Davies (headmaster)

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Alan Seymour Davies (born 21 February 1947) is a former headmaster (so-called "superhead") of Copland Community School and Technology Centre Foundation 1988–2009.‘DAVIES, Sir Alan (Seymour)’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2013; online edn, Dec 2013 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U12952 accessed 16 May 2014] In 2000, he was made a Knight Bachelor for services to education.

In 2013, Davies was convicted of false accounting (fraud), and given a 12-month suspended sentence.{{cite news|author=Press Association|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/03/headteacher-sentenced-false-accounting|title=Former headteacher sentenced for false accounting|work=The Guardian|date=3 October 2013 |accessdate=19 May 2014}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24383163|title=Head teacher Sir Alan Davies avoids jail over fraud|work=BBC News|date=3 October 2013|accessdate=19 May 2014}} Consequently, his knighthood was rescinded in 2014.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-27518504 Copland School ex head teacher stripped of knighthood] BBC News, 22 May 2014. In 2019 he was ordered to pay back £1.4 Million he obtained through illegal bonuses to the local authority.{{Cite web |last=Lydall |first=Anthony France, Ross |date=2019-02-21 |title=Shamed superhead must pay back £1.4m he stole from council |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/shamed-superhead-must-pay-back-ps1-4m-he-stole-from-council-a4072986.html |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}