John David Rees

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John David Rees, circa 1906
File:John David Rees Vanity Fair 1907-02-20.jpg
"Montgomery District"
Rees as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, February 1907

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

Biography

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.

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

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, later Lady du Cros, was an aviator.[5]

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

Selected works

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

References

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 3)[self-published source][better source needed]
  2. ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
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External links

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Montgomery
1906 – December 1910		 Succeeded by
Edward Pryce-Jones
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Nottingham East
1912–1922		 Succeeded by
John Plowright Houfton
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Aylward's Chase)
1919–1922		 Succeeded by
Richard Rees


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