Alan Seymour Davies (born 21 February 1947) is a former headmaster (so-called "superhead") of Copland Community School and Technology Centre Foundation 1988–2009. In 2000, he was made a

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for services to education. In 2013, Davies was convicted of

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( fraud), and given a 12-month suspended sentence. Consequently, his knighthood was rescinded in 2014. In 2019 he was ordered to pay back £1.4 Million he obtained through illegal bonuses to the local authority.

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