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Sir John Rees, 1st Baronet

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Sir John Rees, 1st Baronet
Member of Parliament for Montgomery
In office
1906–1910
Member of Parliament for Nottingham East
In office
1912–1922
Personal details
Born(1854-12-16)16 December 1854
Died2 June 1922(1922-06-02) (aged 67)
"Montgomery District"
Rees as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, February 1907

Sir John David Rees, 1st Baronet, KCIE, CVO (16 December 1854 – 2 June 1922[1]) was a colonial administrator in British India, and subsequently a Member of Parliament at Westminster.

Biography

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He was educated at Cheltenham College and joined the Indian Civil Service in 1875. He served mostly in the south of India where he was Under-Secretary in the Madras Government, and later the British Resident in Travancore and Cochin. He also served as an Additional Member of the Governor-General's Council in the 1890s.[citation needed]

In 1901, Rees retired from the Civil Service. He was an active proponent of the Raj and wrote a number of books on British India. The Real India, first published in 1908, went through a number of editions. In 1902, he had even contributed a number of columns to the Times Literary Supplement on Indian matters.[citation needed]

Parliament

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He served two terms as Member of Parliament (MP): from 1906 to 1910 as the Liberal MP for Montgomery constituency, and from 1912 to 1922 as the Unionist MP for Nottingham East.[citation needed]

He also unsuccessfully contested Kilmarnock Burghs at a by-election in 1911.[2]

Family

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He married Mary Catherine Dormer in 1891,[3] and was created a baronet on 8 May 1919. Lady Rees was a correspondent of George Orwell.[4]

Their daughter Rosemary Rees, later Lady du Cros (1901–1994) was an aviator and one of the first eight female pilots appointed to the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. She was also a qualified flight instructor and was one of the few pilots to receive an MBE for her work in this field.[5]

He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Richard Rees, the inspiration for Ravelston in Orwell's Keep The Aspidistra Flying.[citation needed]

Selected works

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  • Tours in India
  • The Mahommedans
  • The Real India
  • Modern India
  • Current Political Problems

Arms

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Coat of arms of Sir John Rees, 1st Baronet
Crest
A demi-lion rampant erased Azure charged on the shoulder with a plate thereon a cross Gules.
Escutcheon
Argent a chevron Sable between three ravens Proper on a chief of the second between two plates each charged with a cross Gules a like plate charged with a demi-lion rampant erased Azure.
Motto
Deus Alit Eos (God Nourishes Them)[6]

References

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  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 3)
  2. ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
  3. ↑ "Rees, John David". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. pp. 1465–1466.
  4. ↑ "Letter from Orwell to Mary Catherine Rees". UCL Library Services.
  5. ↑ "Rosemary Theresa (nee Rees), Lady du Cros (1901-1994)". National Portrait Gallery, London.
  6. ↑ Debrett's Baronetage. 1921.
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