Baron Darwen, of Heys-in-Bowland in the West Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1946 for John Davies

John Davies, 1st Baron Darwen

John Percival Davies, 1st Baron Darwen , was a British cotton manufacturer and Labour politician.In 1946 Davies was raised to the peerage as Baron Darwen, of Heys-in-Bowland in the West Riding of the County of York...

, a prominent cotton manufacturer. He served as a Lord-in-Waiting

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 (government whip in the House of Lords

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) from 1949 to 1950 in the Labour administration

Labour Government 1945-1951

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 of Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee

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. the title is held by his great-grandson, the fourth Baron, who succeeded his father in 2011.

Barons Darwen (1946)

• John Percival Davies, 1st Baron Darwen
  John Davies, 1st Baron Darwen
  John Percival Davies, 1st Baron Darwen , was a British cotton manufacturer and Labour politician.In 1946 Davies was raised to the peerage as Baron Darwen, of Heys-in-Bowland in the West Riding of the County of York...
  
  (1885–1950)
• Cedric Percival Davies, 2nd Baron Darwen (1915–1988)
• Roger Michael Davies, 3rd Baron Darwen (1938–2011)
• Paul Davies, 4th Baron Darwen (b. 1962)

The heir presumptive is his brother, Hon. Benjamin Davies (b. 1966)