Dictionary of Welsh Biography

REES, BOWEN (1857 - 1929), missionary Wesley (née Davies, the soprano ' Llinos Morgannwg ', born Merthyr Tydfil 5 July 1863, daughter of an iron worker; died Swansea 9 April 1933) were the only missionaries there - she too was of Ystalyfera and had been a preacher on a Methodist circuit since she was 22 years old. They married in Cape Town, 9 March 1890 : they had seven children but three died young at Inyathi. Since King Lobengula (and
REES, BRINLEY RODERICK (1919 - 2004), classical scholar, educationist and university college principal Brinley Rees was born 27 December 1919 in Tondu, Bridgend, son of John David Rees, draper, and Mrs Mary Ann Rees (née Roderick). The family moved to Brecon, where he was educated (1931-8) at Christ College. Under the inspirational teaching of the school's headmaster, the Reverend A. D. James, he achieved outstanding success in Greek and Latin and was elected to the first Postmastership
REES, CALEB (1883 - 1970), inspector of schools and author Born in 1883 the son of Jacob and Mary Rees, Esgair-ordd, Whitchurch, Pembrokeshire. From the village school he went to Port Talbot Intermediate School where he gained a scholarship to Cardiff University College in 1899. There he won the Gladstone Memorial Prize, and graduated with first-class hons. in English in 1902. He continued his education at Manchester University where he won the Withers
REES, Dr. DAVID (1818 - 1904) Bronnant, preacher with the Calvinistic Methodists Born 4 June 1818 at Blaentrosol, Capel Drindod, Llandyfrïog, Cardiganshire, son of Daniel Rees, shoemaker, and Mary (alias Malen) his wife. The son learnt to practise his father's craft. He began to preach on 21 April 1846 and went to a Unitarian school at Newcastle Emlyn for about three years. In 1857 he moved to the parish of Llanilar, but after his marriage on 6 January 1860, to Anne Rees
REES, DAVID (1918 - 2013), mathematician at Exeter University. He married Joan Cushen, also a mathematician, in 1952. They had four daughters, two of whom also became professors of Mathematics - Mary Rees at Liverpool and Sarah Rees at Newcastle. David Rees was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1968 and served on the Council of the Society from 1979 to 1981. For the only time ever, David Rees and one of his daughters were Fellows
REES, DOROTHY MARY (1898 - 1987), Labour politician and alderman
REES, GEORGE (d. 1795), Baptist minister lived as far away as Cilgwyn in the parish of Manordivy. He died 17 June 1795, aged 75; his wife Elizabeth died 24 June 1798, aged 77; both were buried at Cilfowyr. His will refers to two of his children, James Rees and Margaret Davies.
REES, HENRY (1798 - 1869), most famous minister among the Calvinistic Methodists in his day regularly with but few exceptions at Association meetings to the end of his life. He made an intense study of the work of Puritan divines, especially Dr. John Owen. He was ordained at Bala in June 1827. He married Mary Roberts, of Shrewsbury, 20 October 1830, and had four children of whom three died in infancy; the fourth, Ann, grew up and married Richard Davies (1818 - 1896). He moved to Liverpool at
REES, Sir JAMES FREDERICK (1883 - 1967), Principal of the University College at Cardiff , among them The dominion of Ceylon (1949) and the B.B.C. Welsh regional annual lecture entitled Of Welsh nationality and historians (1951). He married in 1913 Dora Rose Lucile, daughter of Gethin Davies, Principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff and they had one son. He died 7 January 1967 at his home, 11 Celyn Grove, Cyncoed, Cardiff.
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, JOHN THOMAS (1857 - 1949), musician ). He married Elizabeth Davies of Pen-y-garn in 1881 (she died in 1939); there were 8 children, 5 of whom were alive in 1955. He died 14 October 1949 and was buried at Y Garn cemetery.
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

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