Dorothy Rees Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Dame
Dorothy Rees
Office:Member of Parliament
for Barry
Term Start:23 February 1950
Term End:5 October 1951
Predecessor:New constituency
Successor:Raymond Gower
Birth Name:Dorothy Mary Jones
Birth Date:29 July 1898

Dame Dorothy Mary Rees (; 29 July 189820 August 1987) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, and was briefly a Member of Parliament (MP).[1] [2] [3]

Career

Rees was a schoolteacher in South Wales and a member of Barry Borough Council, and an alderman of Glamorgan County Council. At the 1950 general election, she was elected as MP for the constituency of Barry, but lost her seat at the 1951 general election to the Conservative Raymond Gower. In Parliament, she served as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Edith Summerskill, the Minister of National Insurance.

She served as a member of the National advisory committee for National Insurance, the Joint Education Committee for Wales, Welsh Teaching Hospitals Board, and was awarded a CBE in 1964, and a DBE in 1975.

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Notes and References

  1. Dictionary of Welsh Biography REES, DOROTHY MARY (1898-1987) https://biography.wales/article/s8-REES-MAR-1898 adalwyd 10 Ionawr 2016
  2. ‘REES, Dame Dorothy (Mary)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 adalwyd 10 Ionawr 2016
  3. Chris Williams, ‘Rees, Dame Dorothy Mary (1898–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 adalwyd 10 Ionawr 2016