Ithel Davies

{{Short description|Welsh political activist and barrister}}

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Ithel Davies (1894 – 1989) was a Welsh political activist and barrister.

Born in Aberystwyth, Davies was a conscientious objector during World War I.{{cite web |title=Ithel Davies Papers |url=https://archiveswales.llgc.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?inst_id=1&coll_id=891&expand= |website=Archives Wales |publisher=National Library of Wales |accessdate=8 February 2019}}{{cite book |last1=Davies |first1=John |title=A History of Wales |date=2007 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0140284751}} He joined the Labour Party, and stood unsuccessfully for it in the University of Wales seat at the 1935 United Kingdom general election. From 1934 until 1936, Davies served on the executive of the Socialist League.Ben Pimlott, Labour and the Left in the 1930s, p.47

During World War II, Davies and D. N. Pritt worked together to obtain the release of T. E. Nicholas, a conscientious objector who had been falsely accused of being a fascist."Nicholas, Thomas Evan (Niclas y Glais)", Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.XIII, p.288 After the war, Davies became active in the Welsh nationalist movement. He became the leading figure in the Welsh Republican Movement, a split from Plaid Cymru, and stood for it in Ogmore at the 1950 United Kingdom general election, taking only 1.3% of the vote.F. W. S. Craig, Minor Parties at British Parliamentary Elections