In 1946 Davies was raised to the peerage as Baron Darwen, of Heys-in-Bowland in the West Riding of the County of York. He served as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1949 to 1950 in the Labour government of Clement Attlee. Lord **Darwen** married Mary Kathleen, daughter of Alfred Kemp Brown, in 1914. He died in December 1950, aged 65, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Cedric.