Representative Deputy Lieutenant for the London Borough of Brent

Colonel Jane Davis OBE QVRM TD DL

Appointed Rep DL: 2026

Colonel Jane Davis is also the Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London.

Colonel Jane Davis trained as a nurse at St Stephen’s Hospital London, qualifying in 1976. She has spent her nursing career in the NHS mainly at London hospitals, within in A&E and Critical Care, and most recently (until April 2020) as the Secondary Care Nurse on the board of the Governing Body of NHS Camden Clinical Commissioning Group. Until 2021 she was also a registrant panel member with the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council, where she sat as a Chair on panels of the conduct and competence hearings. She is also on the Board of The HALO Trust and sits on the Lord Mayor’s Big Curry Lunch Committee.

Colonel Davis was commissioned as a Lieutenant into the Territorial Army in 1981, joining 217 London General Hospital (Volunteers). She remained with the London Field Hospital until 2003 when she was promoted to Colonel and took command of 306 Field Hospital. In 2006 she was appointed as TA Col Nursing at 2nd Med Bde and in 2009 as Deputy Commander of 2nd Med Bde, the post she held until her retirement in Sept 2015. Colonel Davis was deployed to Afghanistan in 2011 as the Senior Nurse for the Role 3 Hospital at Camp Bastion. She was the Colonel Commandant of the QARANC from 2014 to 2020.

She was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1994, the Queens Volunteer Reserve Medal in the New Year’s Honours in 2000, the OBE in the New Year’s Honours in 2012 and as an Officer of Saint John OStJ in 2021.  She served from 2005 to 2009 as the Queens Honorary Nurse.

Colonel Davis travels widely with The HALO Trust an International NGO that she has supported for 30 years and has had the honour of visiting Angola, Mozambique, Somaliland, Kosovo, Abkhazia, Georgia, Nagorno Karabakh, Cambodia, Lebanon, Ivory Coast, Sri Lanka, The West Bank, Columbia, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Afghanistan and Ukraine; where her involvement includes development of training programmes for the minefield paramedics, procurement of medical equipment and the training and validation of minefield.

Jane is a Liveryman of The Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths since 2012 and was elected to the Court in 2018. She is also a Freeman of the Guild of Nurses. In 2008 Colonel Davis was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant for Greater London and was the Representative DL for the London Borough of Lewisham and in May 2018 was appointed as the Vice Lord Lieutenant of Greater London.
Colonel Davis’ other interests when she has time include skiing, walking, and gardening.

Further information about the London Borough of Brent can be found at http://www.brent.gov.uk/.

Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2020

On the 25th March 2021, Miss Mei-Sim Lai presented the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, to Joe & Seph’s Gourmet Popcorn, at their head office in Brent.  Joe & Seph’s are a family business who launched in 2010 with a mission to produce the best tasting popcorn in the world, and after many years of hard work, the team we’re delighted to be recognised with a QAE award in International Trade.