Geraint Rhys Davies (born Treherbert, 1 December 1948) is a Plaid Cymru Welsh politician. He was the National Assembly for Wales Member for Rhondda from 1999 to 2003.

Education

Pentre Grammar School; Chelsea College; and the University of London.

Geraint Davies (Plaid Cymru politician)

Professional career

Post-Graduate Training, Rookwood Hospital, Cardiff 1971–72. Relief Manager and Manager, Boots the Chemists 1972–75. Self-Employed Community Pharmacist in Treherbert since 1975. President of Blaenrhondda Football Club and a deacon at Blaencwm Baptist church. School Governor.

Geraint Davies (Plaid Cymru politician)

Political career

Local Government

Davies served a councillor on District of Rhondda Council until its abolition 1996 as well as a County Borough Councillor for the ward of Treherbert in Rhondda Cynon Taff from 1995 to 2004 and again from 2012 to 2022 when he stood down at the age of 73.

Geraint Davies (Plaid Cymru politician)

National Assembly for Wales

He was elected as Plaid Cymru member for Rhondda in the inaugural election of 1999 where he served as Plaid Cymru's spokesperson for the South Wales Valleys and was a member of the Local Government Partnership Council and Health and Social Services Committee. He lost his seat in 2003 and did not seek election to the Assembly again.

References

Profile on the BBC Website September 1999

External links

Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales Website

Offices held

1948 births

Living people

Councillors in Wales

Alumni of the University of London

People from Treherbert

Plaid Cymru politicians

Plaid Cymru members of the Senedd

Wales AMs 1999–2003

School governors