Quentin Davis, former Grand and Stamford MPs, die at the age of 80

Lord Davis, a former Lincolnshire MP from Stamford, who spread by political career for nearly four decades, died at the age of 80.

Born in Oxford, Quentin Davis had a career as a diplomat before going into banking.

He was first elected to the then Stamford and Spelding seat in 1987 and was famously faulty. Conservative for labor in 2007,

Lincolnshire County Council leader Martin Hill described him as “bigger than life”.

Apart from his constituency duties, Lord Davis also served as Chhaya Northern Ireland Secretary and Junior Defense Minister.

His Stamford and Spelding constituency were abolished in 1997 and went to represent Grantham and Stamford’s Redron seat.

Lord Davis decided not to seek the election again in 2010 and entered the House of Lords that year, where he served till 2023.

He faced Labor a day before Gordon Brown as Prime Minister of Tony Blair in 2007.

In a letter to his former conservative leader David Cameron, he claimed that the party “has been collectively closed to trust anything, or to stand for anything”.

Hill, who was the chairman of the Conservative Association in Grand, during the time of Lord Davis as an MP, said the defection came as a “total jerk”.

“He was slightly larger than life and was a very good constituency MP, so the defection came out directly from blue,” he said.

Charmine Morgan, an independent councilor and former labor worker in Grand, remembered him to attend a party quiz at night soon after his defection.

“We had a complete section on the history of the labor party and got the top score,” he said.