Dictionary of Welsh Biography

REES, Sir JOHN MILSOM (1866 - 1952), surgeon and laryngologist service to the Royal Family; he was laryngologist to King George V throughout the twenty-six years of his reign, and to Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra and Queen Maude of Norway. He was knighted in 1916, appointed K.C.V.O. in 1923, and promoted to G.C.V.O. in 1934. The University of Wales conferred upon him an honorary D.Sc. in 1931. Milsom Rees was officially associated with many of the leading London
REES, JOSIAH (1744 - 1804), Unitarian minister first Welsh magazine to find any sort of public. Whether Peter Williams (1723 - 1796) was also concerned in the venture is still not quite clear (see Gomer M. Roberts, Bywyd a Gwaith Peter Williams, 176-84), but modern opinion tends to the contrary. In theology, there is no doubt that Rees was an Arian from his early days; by the end of the century he was a declared Unitarian - his name stands first
REES, LEIGHTON THOMAS (1940 - 2003), world champion darts player Pontypridd Rugby Club at Ynys Angharad Park. On 16 August 1980 in Las Vegas he married Debbie Ryle, a female darts player from Anaheim, California, whom he had met on the 'Queen Mary' in Long Beach, she had a son, Ryan, whom Leighton Rees nurtured as his own son. By the 1990s Leighton Rees's health had declined through heart troubles. He had a heart operation in 2001 and died in Glamorgan Royal Hospital
REES, MERLYN (1920 - 2006), politician Merlyn Rees was born on 18 December 1920 at William Street, Cilfynydd near Pontypridd, Glamorgan, the only child of Levi Daniel Rees, a coal miner, and his wife Edith Mary (née Williams). At least three generations of the Rees family had worked underground in the coal pits of south. The family were committed Baptists, and an early memory was attending the local Baptist Sunday school. Levi Rees
REES, MORGAN GORONWY (1909 - 1979), writer and university administrator Goronwy Rees was born at Rhos (now Pen-y-Geulan), North Road, Aberystwyth, on 29 November 1909, the fourth and last of the surviving children of Richard Jenkin Rees (1868-1963), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and his wife Apphia Mary (née James, 1870-1931). In 1903 the Reverend R. J. Rees, a local man by birth, became minister of Tabernacle, the landmark Calvinist Methodist chapel at Aberystwyth
REES, OWEN (1717 - 1768), Independent minister 'backsliding'. He died 14 March 1768, and was buried in the old Aberdare churchyard; two acrostic verses by his eventual successor in the pastorate, Edward Evan appear on his tombstone. His widow, Mary, married again, and lived to be 100 - see her obituary in the Monthly Repository, 1818, 143. Josiah Rees was their son.
REES, RICE (1804 - 1839), cleric and scholar Born 31 March 1804 at Ton near Llandovery, son of David and Sarah Rees - see the article on the Rees of Ton family. His father was apparently an Independent, and Rice Rees was christened in the Independent chapel by Peter Jenkins of Brychgoed. In 1819 he went to Lampeter grammar school, which in those days was in charge of Eliezer Williams, but his stay there was short. After that, he spent some
REES, RICHARD JENKIN (1868 - 1963), minister (Presb.) Movement of the Presbyterian Church of Wales in Cardiff, he worked with diligence and success in that office until 1947. In 1894 he married Apphia Mary James of Pen-y-garn; they had two sons and two daughters: Morgan Goronwy Rees, sometime Principal of University College Aberystwyth, was their second son. After retiring he lived with his children at Pwllheli, and near Oxford, and at Waltham Cross, London
REES, ROBERT OLIVER (1819 - 1881), apothecary, publisher, and author wrote on Mary Jones, the young Merioneth Welshwoman whose long walk to Bala in order to procure from Thomas Charles a copy of the Welsh Bible led, indirectly, to the foundation of the British and Foreign Bible Society, proved exceedingly popular; it was translated into the language of the Khassis, Assam. R. O. Rees was also largely instrumental in arranging for the erecting of the statue of Thomas
REES, THOMAS (1825 - 1908), minister (CM) biographies: Cofiant y diweddar Barch. Ebenezer Williams, Aberhonddu (1882) and (with D.M. Phillips) Cofiant a phregethau y diweddar David James, Llaneurwg (1895). Several volumes of his sermons were published and he was a contributor to Y Traethodydd, Y Drysorfa, Y Cylchgrawn, The Treasury and The British Quarterly Review. Dr. R. Tudur Jones said of him that ' he was a man of considerable learning and a
REES, THOMAS (1862 - 1951), breeder of Welsh cobs Born 31 January 1862 one of the 10 children, 3 girls and 7 boys, of James Rees and Mary, his wife, who lived at Sarnicol, the cottage in Capel Cynon, Cardiganshire, in which Thomas Jacob Thomas was born in 1873. The Rees family moved to Dolau Llethi, Llannarth where Thomas at the age of 8 was a shepherd in summer, working for a time alongside Evan Pan Jones, and attended school at Talgarreg in
REES, THOMAS (1815 - 1885), Independent minister, and historian Born 13 December 1815 at Penpontbren, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, son of Thomas Rees and his wife Hannah (Williams), but reared by his mother and her family, on the holding of Banc-y-fer, Llangathen. He had only three months' schooling, and was of little use on the farm - 'slow, clumsy, and lazy,' so it was said; yet he was good at basket-making. He became a member of Capel Isaac church, and in

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