Sir John T. Davies (1881–1938), known as J. T. Davies until 1923, served as Lloyd George's Principal Private Secretary (PPS) from 1912 to 1922 and was subsequently a director of both the Suez Canal Company and the Ford Motor Company Limited.
Early life
John Thomas Davies was born in Wales on 9 May 1881. He was one of the five children of John Davies, a farmer[1] from Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire,[2] and he was a cousin of the Welsh Liberal MP Towyn Jones.[3] As a boy John Thomas wrote poetry in Welsh and won prizes at eisteddfodau. He considered becoming a preacher, but decided on a career in teaching. After studying at Normal College, Bangor he moved to London where he taught for ten years while studying part time for a Bachelor of Science degree at London University. In July 1911 he was on the organising committee for the investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarvon, and it was there that he met Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, who offered him a job as one of his secretaries, which was accepted.