Peter Ronald Davies

British Army general

Peter Ronald Davies

Peter Davies, as president of Eurogroup for Animals, presenting the Campaign4Animals Award to Otwarte Klatki (Open Cages) on 22 June 2016

Born| 10 May 1938
Allegiance| United Kingdom
Service/branch| British Army
Rank| Major-General
Commands| 1st Armoured Division's Signals Regiment
12th Armoured Brigade
Wales
Awards| Companion of the Order of the Bath

Major-General Peter Ronald Davies CB (born 10 May 1938) is a retired British Army Officer and animal welfare campaigner.

## Early life and education

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Davies was educated at Llandovery College, Welbeck College and at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[1]

## Military career

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Davies was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1958. He became the commanding officer of the 1st Armoured Division's Signals Regiment in 1976. He went on to be commander of 12th Armoured Brigade in 1982, Director of Studies of the Staff College, Camberley in 1986 and Commander Communications, British Army of the Rhine in 1988. His last appointment was as General Officer Commanding Wales in 1990 before retiring in 1991.[2]

Davies was appointed Colonel of The King's Regiment[3][4][5] in 1986 and served in that position until 1994. He was also the Colonel Commandant of the Royal Signals from 1990 to 1996. He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1992 New Year Honours.[6]

## Animal welfare

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In 1991, Maj-Gen Davies was appointed the Director General[7][8][9][10] of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) where he served for 11 years. During 2002, Davies assumed the role of Director General of The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA)[11] – now known as World Animal Protection – until 2009. Also, Davies has served as the Chairman of Trustees for The Brooke Hospital for Animals,[12] President of Eurogroup for Animal Welfare,[13] Chairman of Animals in War Memorial Fund[14] and as Chairman of Freedom Food Ltd[15] (an initiative to assure high quality animal husbandry in food production) now known as RSPCA Assured.[16]

## References

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1. ^ "Major General Peter Davies". King's College London. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
2. ^ "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 2 July 2016.
3. ^ "Court circular". The Independent. 17 September 2011. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
4. ^ "Regiment Image Archives". 5 May 2005. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
5. ^ "Webmatters : The King's (Liverpool Regiment) Pals Memorial at Montauban". Retrieved 7 January 2019.
6. ^ "No. 52767". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1991. p. 3.
7. ^ "BBC News – UK – RSPCA campaigner dies of CJD". Retrieved 7 January 2019.
8. ^ Interview Katie Sampson (23 October 2011). "I work for ... The director-general of the RSPCA: Maureen Salter is PA". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
9. ^ "RSPCA boss Davies to step down after 11 years at the helm". Retrieved 7 January 2019.
10. ^ Clennell, Andrew (21 October 2002). "Anti-hunt activist to head RSPCA". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
11. ^ "Presentation by Major-General Peter Davies, Director-General of WSPA" (PDF). 21 October 2008. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
12. ^ "Animal People Online". Archived from the original on 24 February 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
13. ^ "Our board". Eurogroup for Animals.
14. ^ "AIW - Peter Davies - Trustee". Animalsinwar.org.uk. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
15. ^ "2m to push Freedom Food". Farmers Weekly. 19 August 1999. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
16. ^ "RSPCA Assured Home Page". RSPCA Assured. Retrieved 5 January 2016.

Military offices

Preceded by

Morgan Llewellyn

|  General Officer Commanding Wales
1990-1991  | Succeeded by

Michael Regan

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Animal welfare

Issues|

* Abandoned pets
* Blood sports
* Chick culling
* Cormorant culling
* Livestock dehorning
* Eating live animals
* Eating live seafood
* Intensive animal farming
* Intensive pig farming
* Overview of discretionary invasive procedures on animals
* Dairy farming
* Poultry farming
* Puppy mill
* Vivisection
* Welfare of farmed insects
* Wild animal suffering
* Wildlife farming
* Feedback (pork industry)
* Foam depopulation
* Ventilation shutdown
* Barn fire

Concepts|

* Abnormal behaviours in animals
* Animal psychopathology
* Animal shelter
* Animal welfare science
* Anthrozoology
* Behavioral enrichment
* Compassionate conservation
* Conservation welfare
* Ethics of uncertain sentience
* Ethical omnivorism
* Five freedoms
* Humane law enforcement
* Intrinsic value in animal ethics
* Rescue group
* Three Rs principles
* Welfare biology

Pain in
nonhuman animals|

* Pain in animals
* Pain in amphibians
* Pain in cephalopods
* Pain in crustaceans
* Pain in fish
* Pain in invertebrates
* Grimace scale

Organisations|

* ASPCA
* Animal Defenders International
* Animal Welfare Party
* American Humane
* Animal Aid Unlimited
* Animal Welfare Board of India
* Animal Welfare Institute
* Badger Trust
* Band of Mercy
* Battersea
* Blue Cross
* Blue Cross of India
* Cats Protection
* Compassion in World Farming
* CAWF
* Cinnamon Trust
* Dogs Trust
* DSPA
* DSPCA
* Eurogroup for Animals
* Farm Animal Welfare Committee
* Four Paws
* FRAME
* Hedgehog Care
* Humane Canada
* HSUS
* Humane Society International
* Humane Slaughter Association
* International Animal Rescue
* IFAW
* International Society for Applied Ethology
* ISPCA
* List of animal welfare organizations
* League Against Cruel Sports
* Marine Connection
* Network for Animals
* Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research
* MSPCA-Angell
* National Animal Welfare Trust
* National Anti-Vivisection Society
* OneKind
* Party for Animal Welfare
* People for Animals
* People's Dispensary for Sick Animals
* RNZSPCA
* RSPCA
* RSPCA Australia
* Save Me
* SSPCA
* Tiggywinkles
* Toronto Humane Society
* UFAW
* Wildlife Aid Foundation
* World Animal Protection
* World Horse Welfare

Publications|

* American Humane Magazine
* Animal Protection
* Animal Welfare
* AWI Quarterly
* Cruel Sports
* Human Advocate
* Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
* Our Dumb Animals
* The Animals' Guardian
* The Zoophilist

Activists
and workers|

| Contemporary|

* Michael C. Appleby
* Cynthia Bathurst
* Matthew E. Bershadker
* Christa Blanke
* Moira Brown
* Jan Cameron
* Judy MacArthur Clark
* Kendra Coulter
* Peter Ronald Davies
* Petra Deimer
* Alanna Devine
* Robin Ganzert
* Celia Hammond
* Alison Hanlon
* Brian Hare
* Kathrin Glock
* Emily Patterson-Kane
* Philip Lymbery
* Damien Mander
* Christine Nicol
* Wayne Pacelle
* Sharon Pincott
* Ilka Reinhardt
* Jill Robinson
* Naomi Sagara
* Sepehr Salimi
* Adolfo Sansolini
* Rakesh Shukla
* Karen Stockin
* Patti Strand
* Sally Varma
* Tina M. Widowski

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Historical|

* Gertrude Ansell
* Emily Appleton
* H. Baillie-Weaver
* Madeleine Bemelmans
* Henry Bergh
* Mary Brancker
* Victoria Braithwaite
* Roger A. Caras
* Jim Cronin
* Brian Davies
* Gerard Lysley Derriman
* Maria Dickin
* Marjorie Doggett
* Muriel Dowding
* Alice Drakoules
* Sarah J. Eddy
* Agnes Estcourt-Oswald
* Edward G. Fairholme
* Aida McAnn Flemming
* Lucy Furman
* Basil Goldstone
* Julia Goddard
* Robert Gower
* Colesworthey Grant
* George Greenwood
* Peter Gurney
* Catherine Victoria Hall
* Edward Hemingway
* Rachel Hirschfeld
* Sjoerd Hofstra
* Clive Hollands
* John A. Hoyt
* Velma Bronn Johnston
* Albert Knapp
* Titus Lander
* Carla Lane
* Etta Lemon
* Victoria Lidiard
* Alasdair Alpin MacGregor
* Terry Maple
* Richard Martin
* Shirley McGreal
* Lady Mount Temple
* Harriet Nevins
* Felix Ortt
* Catherine Louisa Pirkis
* Eliza Phillips
* Maude Gillette Phillips
* Samuel Jackson Pratt
* Wilfred Risdon
* Peter Roberts
* Jan Salter
* Catherine Smithies
* Thomas Bywater Smithies
* Herbert Snow
* Ellin Prince Speyer
* Christine Stevens
* Elisabeth Svendsen
* Mary Tealby
* Ralph Waldo Trine
* Sidney Trist
* Ethel Venton
* Jessey Wade
* Christopher Wathes
* Franz Weber
* Caroline Earle White
* Emily Williamson
* H. Fergie Woods
* Alice Morgan Wright
* Gretchen Wyler

Scholars
and writers|

| Contemporary|

* Arnold Arluke
* Jonathan Balcombe
* Michael Balls
* Geoffrey Barstow
* Marc Bekoff
* Donald Broom
* Marian Dawkins
* Bruce Fogle
* Jane Goodall
* Temple Grandin
* Celia Haddon
* Jane Hurst
* Erich Hoyt
* Barbara J. King
* Alistair Lawrence
* David Macdonald
* Jeremy Marchant
* Jeff McMahan
* Daniel Mills
* Sy Montgomery
* Virginia Morell
* Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell
* Clare Palmer
* Susan J. Pearson
* Dale Peterson
* Jessica Pierce
* Diana Reiss
* Carl Safina
* Matthew Scully
* Paul Shapiro
* Jennifer Skiff
* Peter Wohlleben

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Historical|

* George T. Angell
* Patrick Bateson
* Beddow Bayly
* Ernest Bell
* Edward Berdoe
* Arthur Broome
* Jean Burden
* Gerald Carson
* Stephen Coleridge
* Christian Adam Dann
* J. Morewood Dowsett
* Audrey Eyton
* George Fleming
* Ralph Fletcher
* Ruth Harrison
* C. W. Hume
* E. Douglas Hume
* James Macaulay
* Basheer Ahmad Masri
* Francis Orpen Morris
* George Nicholson
* Siobhan O'Sullivan
* Charles Reinhardt
* Francis H. Rowley
* W. M. S. Russell
* Chris Sherwin
* Colin Spedding
* William O. Stillman
* Bell Taylor
* Ernst von Weber
* D. G. M. Wood-Gush
* Frans de Waal
* Hugh Wirth
* William Youatt

Categories|

* Animal advocacy parties
* Animal killing
* Animal rights
* Animal welfare and rights legislation
* Animal sacrifice
* Animal sanctuaries
* Animal testing
* Animal welfare and rights by country
* Cruelty to animals
* Dishes involving the consumption of live animals
* Fur trade
* People associated with animal welfare
* Whaling

Religious
considerations|

* Dhabihah
* Jhatka
* Kutha
* Shechita
* Tza'ar ba'alei chayim

Rituals and
festivals|

* Blessing of animals
* Bous al carrer
* Cock throwing
* Combat de Reines
* Eid al-Adha
* Gadhimai festival
* Goat throwing
* Goose pulling
* International Primate Day
* Kapparot
* Dog Meat Festival
* Monkey Buffet Festival
* October Horse
* Pushkar Camel Fair
* Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo
* Running of the bulls
* Surin Elephant Round-up
* Toro embolado
* World Animal Day

Legislation|

* Animal testing regulations
* Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (UK)
* Animal Welfare Act 1999 (NZ)
* Animal Welfare Act 2006 (UK)
* Animal Welfare Act of 1966 (US)
* Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 (UK)
* Cruelty to Animals Act 1876 (UK)
* EU Directive 2010/63/EU (EU)
* EU Directive 1999/74/EC (EU)
* Horse Protection Act of 1970 (US)
* Hunting Act 2004 (UK)
* List of international animal welfare conventions
* Philippine Animal Welfare Act 1998 (Philippines)

Related|

* List of animal rights advocates

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